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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published April 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Sol Cohen
Notes PRISON BREAK, April 1952 - Vol. 1, No.3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. Jos. Meyers, Pres., Sol Cohen, Editor and General Manager. Painted cover from the paperback Blondie Iscariot, Siren of the Underworld by Edgar Lustgarten, Avon #179. Indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details - "Killer on the Loose"

Genre Crime
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Letters typeset
Notes PRISON BREAK, April 1952 - Vol. 1, No.3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. Jos. Meyers, Pres., Sol Cohen, Editor and General Manager. Painted cover from the paperback Blondie Iscariot, Siren of the Underworld by Edgar Lustgarten, Avon #179. Indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

Pencils Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Notes On inside front cover.

7 page story Killers on the Loose! Francine O'Connor -- "The Empress of Crime"

Synopsis "Francine O'Connor used her cunning brain and fantastic physical strength to drench the pages of crime with the misery and blood of her victims!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Case (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn - 1]

7 page story "Sonny Tehume, Machine-Gun Madman!"

Synopsis "He had money for women and liquor -- an inherited fortune! He did not have to prey upon his fellow man in order to exist. But this ruthless killer was a maniac who destroyed for pleasure!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Ed Goldfarb [as Goldfarb] (signed)
Inks Bob Baer [as Baer] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Machine-Gun Madman is in all lower case letters in the title.
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn- 1]

7 page story "Lina Foyle... Gunmoll!"

Synopsis "To get the life of luxury of which she had always dreamed, redheaded Lina Foyle and her trigger-happy boyfriend went on a spree of robbery and shooting that finally ended in --- murder!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn - 1]

1 page text story "Cleveland's Butcher of Death!"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn - 1]

1 page text story "Two-Dollar Murder!"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn - 1]

4 page story "Death Comes Laughing"

Synopsis "Too many rich old men had died at the mysterious Dr. Rolf's mountain sanitorium! Beautiful Janice Greer found herself battling the weird menace of the house where 'Death Comes Laughing!'" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Sid Check [as SID] (signed)
Inks Sid Check [as SID] (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn - 1]