Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) comic books 1952
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Issue #9
Published Mar 1952 by Trojan Magazines.- Cover and centerfold loose at both staples. 1" tear to back cover sealed with tape.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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 #13
Published Nov 1952 by Trojan Magazines.- Full length spine split sealed with tape, cover detached at one staple.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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.
Other items consigned by humble cow
- Centerfold detached.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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.
