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Authentic Police Cases (1948 St. John) 18

  • Issue #18
    Authentic Police Cases (1948 St. John) 18
    • Cover coming loose at both staples. Interior tears taped. Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker and Enrico Bagnoli. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Beautiful but evil Margo enlists crooked makeup artist Marty to help her impersonate and fleece the wealthy, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Counterfeiters abduct a retired US Treasury engraver and his wife to force him to create fake bills for them. A solve-it-yourself mystery gives the reader three suspects, and lets them figure out which one is the killer. Cover by Baker. Murder at Marsh Hollow; The Gory Twenties Trail; The Man Who Came to Murder!; Rutzie Quits the Rackets; Fifty Grand Frame-up; Jack Diamond; Murder in Mink. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.