Lawbreakers! (1951) comic books 1952

Stories and art by Al Tyler, Bob Forgione, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. Lt. Mac McCoy sets out to find the missing witness who could put racketeer Sid Hilton away for good. A murder at the creepy old Donovan house remains unsolved for years, until police suddenly realize that an opium ring is using the house. Crooks scam a freight-yard operator out of a semi trailer worth of goods, putting the FBI on the case. Plus true facts about how police trace criminals with ballistics. Crime Tracks: How Criminals Are Trapped...; The Missing Witness Mystery; Crimewave; Words of Death; Scene of the Crime; The Acme Hi-Jack; Racing Facts: The 500. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Lou Morales, Albert Tyler, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. A gang of killers masquerades as ordinary citizens by day, while at night they target a shipment of television sets (then a very new item). A modern-day passenger train is stopped and held up by criminals dressed like Old West desperadoes. DA Frances Delaney and her sidekick Officer Riley challenge the reader to solve a murder before they do. Crime Facts: Did You Know....; The Wharf Rats; The Masquerade Murders; Art Anderson, Automobile Detective; The Money Machine; Manhunt; Notes on Crime. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Lou Morales, Albert Tyler, and Art Capello. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. A crook and a bar owner scheme to take over the local slot machine racket, until the police get wind of it. Detectives trace the murder of a traveling salesman to a hitchhiking couple he picked up. Feds and the US Coast Guard bait the crew of an extra-judicial gambling ship to sail into American waters. The Keyhole Clue; Slot Machine Murders; The Bungling Hitchhikers; Payment for Murder; 3 Mile Limit: A Story of Ruthless Killers; The Deadly Dopester; A Dead Hart Talks!32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Art Capello. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After a bunko cop is killed, police crack down on the con games that criminal gangs are playing around the city. Three convicts plan a prison break, but unfortunately for them, the warden has a plan of his own. A masked killer targets Big Joe Galinki's crooked dice games. Plus true facts about how police track criminals with (1950s-era) trace analysis. Crime Clues: Trapped... By a Hair!; A Sergeant Force Murder Mystery: Cop Killer; Prison Break; Death Foils a Double-Cross; Death in Dice; Insured for Murder; The Forger. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Stan Asch. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After poverty-stricken cabbie Malone foils a cab robbery, he decides to take the crook's gun and do some robbing of his own. Mob enforcer Johnnie Bacon doesn't know what to do when a business won't pay protection money, so his boss shows him. Two women work out a scheme to pick up and rob random men, but one night they pick up the wrong guy. Minute Clues; A Day for Homicide; Death Was His Business; He Wanted to Be a Detective; Murder for Nothing; The Gun; Crime from Within. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lawbreakers Suspense Stories (1953 Charlton) #10. 32 pages, Full Color.