Crime Detective Comics Volume 2 (1950) 4
-
$26.50
View scan- Tape along staples.
Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Gerald McCann, Ed Moore and Bernie Krigstein. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A bootlegger has a whole fleet of clandestine ships that he uses to elude the cops during Prohibition. A trio of bank robbers swears to look after their dead partner's infant son, in an echo of the film Three Godfathers with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. After a millionaire disappears and his body is hidden, a holiday turkey proves to be a murderer's undoing. Big Steve's Navy; Now I Can Die Easy...; Automatic Paydays; Silk Langdon; Stella and Her Fella; The Boston Turkey Case; The Very Busy Dead Man. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.