Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) comic books 1952
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Issue #8
Published Jan 1952 by Trojan Magazines.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Ray McClelland, and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth faces a life-or-death struggle with the murderous female doctor behind the Green Circle extortion ring. Gail Ford goes undercover to infiltrate a shoplifting ring, in a story with good-girl art by Ray McClelland. A one-armed teddy bear holds the key to solving a murder for Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Girl Snatchers; Sally the Sleuth: Death by Appointment; Ray Hale, News Ace: Problem in the Park; The Dead Accuser; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Bear-Trap Kill. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #9
Published Mar 1952 by Trojan Magazines.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Ray McClelland, H. C. Kiefer and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth uses her feminine wiles to infiltrate a hot-jewelry ring, in one of several stories in this issue featuring good-girl art.Gail Ford goes undercover to find a mobster's killer, in a story with good-girl art by Ray McClelland. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective investigates murder in a sleeper-car train movie set, in a story with plentiful good-girl art by Max Plaisted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Case of the Frustrated Moll; Sally the Sleuth: Blonde Decoy; Ray Hale, News Ace; Brains Pay Off; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Corpse in Lower 9. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #10
Published May 1952 by Trojan Magazines.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Newton H. Alfred and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Redheaded reporter Ruth Meriden helps Ray Hale track the bespectacled spy known as The Owl, in a story combining good-girl and action-girl art. Gail Ford goes undercover as a "taxi dancer" to catch a killer and tracks down a fugitive druglord as a bonus, in a story with action-girl art by Keats Petree. After a cinematographer's on-set practical joke humiliates two movie starlets, Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective must figure out which one killed him, in a story with good-girl art (and a girl-fight) by Max Plaisted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Dime-A-Dance Death; Sally the Sleuth: Death Watch; Ray Hale, News Ace; The Sinister Guest; No Crooks Wanted; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Death Trumps the Joker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #11
Published Jul 1952 by Trojan Magazines.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Adolphe Barreaux and Gene Leslie. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Reporter Ray Hale suspects foul play when a rival reporter scoops him on a woman's murder, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Gail Ford goes undercover as a gangster's moll, in a story more like the violent pre-Code crime comics of other publishers. Sally The Sleuth and "The Chief" pretend to be psychic detectives to find out if an elderly heiress is really being haunted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Muscling-In to Doom; Sally the Sleuth: Ghostly Quest; Ray Hale, News Ace; Death Is the Prize; The Nemesis of Evil; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Trap For a Booby. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #12
Published Sep 1952 by Trojan Magazines.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner attends a "midnight men's party" where the entertainment is magician Charm Marlowe, whose costume is skimpier than Zatanna's. But when a man dies by snakebite, Dan suspects "premeditated killery." Gail Ford goes undercover as a maid to get the drop on robbers targeting wealthy homeowners. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover as a model to find the deadly secret behind two women's deaths, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Fortune-Teller Robberies; Ray Hale: After-Hours Killing; Sally the Sleuth: Tumbling Corpses; Prayer Works Wonders; Theft by Appointment; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Mysto-Magic Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #13
Published Nov 1952 by Trojan Magazines.$130.00
View scans- Restored: C1
- Paper: Off white
- Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, small amount of glue on cover.
- Label #4380421005
Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Pierre Charpentier and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner investigates after a masked dancer murders a performer on stage in the middle of an act. Gail Ford risks her life to catch a sniper preying on young women in the city streets. Sally the Sleuth suspects that a photographer's wife is being set up for his murder when her picture appears on the camera in the dead man's hand. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Trail of Terror; Prayer Works Wonders; Sally the Sleuth: Film of Murder; Murder by Sound; When Justice Slipped Its Cogs; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Strangler's Ballet. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #14
Published Jan 1952 by Trojan Magazines.- Centerfold detached at both staples, cover detached at one.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The Hollywood Detective faces yet another on-set murder; the twist is that the victim was dressed in a gorilla suit at the time. Gail Ford investigates a crooked lottery using "punchboards," a popular pre-digital gaming system. Sally The Sleuth is on the case when a pin-up artist is stalked by a shapely killer in a cat's mask. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Terror on the Highway; Sally the Sleuth: Prowling Cat; Death on the Lam; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Case of the Slain Gorilla. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
