Authentic Police Cases (1948) comic books 1954
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Issue #31
$99.00
View scan- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Enrico Bagnoli, and Antonio Toldo. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Vinny gets caught by the cops after a dramatic and violent pre-Code car chase, but they don't know what he did with the loot from the defense plant. Joe Dollar figures out how to muscle his way into the bookie business, but first he has to get rid of the competition. Vannie gets nervous when fellow crimelord Doc demands to retire, with years' worth of evidence as his insurance policy. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Seven Years Late for Death; Joe Dollars Last Loan; The Jensen-Kelly Feud; You Can Fight Crime; The Man Who Couldnt Die. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #34
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split with some splitting through several wraps.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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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 travel by dogsled to 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. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. The Case of the International Jewel Thieves; Monument to Death; The Arctic Menace; Storm Patrol; Corpses in the Caribbean. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
