Authentic Police Cases (1948) comic books 1950
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Issue #7
- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #0346093021
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Paul Gattuso and Jack Cole. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Roy and Connor investigate a hot-check ring, in a story with art by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. Reporter Scoop Daily is covering a goodwill mission to Mexico when he learns that corrupt billionaire Oily Welles is trying to start a war between Mexico and the U.S. McGuire, arrested for a crime he didn't commit, tries to prove his innocence. Plus the origin of the Masked Blackjack, the superhero formerly known as the Gay Desperado. And a biography of Legs Diamond. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Gerald Chapman; Master Forgers; Scoop Daily; Crime Does Not Pay!; Jack Diamond; How the Masked Blackjack Proved His Innocence; Two Minutes to Doom. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #9
- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #18-1347365-009
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
- 8.5" Cumulative spine split (glued). Heavy oxidation. Fragile.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by John Celardo and others. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. The FBI and Scotland Yard track a gang of murderous jewel thieves to the frozen wastes of Greenland, in a story that may be early work by Frank Thorne. Mounties King and Bernard track poacher Johnson, described in the captions as a "human wolverine," but he proves too tough for just two Mounties. Donovan investigates when Marian denies that the body recovered from a plane crash is that of her husband Bill. And a biography of Jesse James. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. The Ghost With Silver Spurs; The Case of the International Jewel Thieves; Jesse James; The Arctic Menace; Storm Patrol; Corpses in the Caribbean. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
