Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) 52
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Issue #52
- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #4482733002
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by A. C. Hollingsworth and others. Pre-Code crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A carnival aerialist plots to murder his partner in midair during their act. A murderous con man goes into hiding as a fortune-telling mystic, featuring art by pioneering African-American cartoonist Alvin Hollingsworth. Obsessed with fashionable clothes and his own reflection, hood Moxie Roberts is a classic narcissist, but his love of mirrors leads to his downfall. The Carnival Killer; Murder and Roses; The Swami's Last Seance; Corpus Delicti - Without Teeth!; Through the Looking Glass; Lawbreakers Never Win. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
