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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published November 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee (?)
Notes Information for this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely discussion list. No story inside that matches with the cover title.

Cover Details - "Human Beasts at Bay!"

Genre Crime
Notes Information for this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely discussion list. No story inside that matches with the cover title.

14 page story "The Deadly Decision!"

Genre Crime

5 page story "The Pirate and the Black Cat!"

Genre Crime

1 page Wanted By The F.B.I. public service announcement

Genre Crime

2 page text story "Tracing the Hit and Run Driver"

Genre Crime
Letters Typeset

7 page story "The Race with Death!"

Genre Crime

1 page Let's Play Detective story "Clue to a Kidnaper!"

Genre Crime
Script Allen Bellman
Pencils Allen Bellman
Inks Allen Bellman

9 page story "Crime: Kidnaping! Victim: Abraham Lincoln!"

Synopsis Semi-historical account of the 1876 attempt to kidnap the remains of President Abraham Lincoln from his resting place in Oak Ridge Cemetary.
Genre Crime
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes First published work by John Buscema according to Back-Up #14 (edited by Tristan Lapoussière) (info via Stéphane Petit on the Error Tracker, January 2009). No, it is not the first published art by John Buscema but it is his first professional art done. The first published art is Lawbreakers always loose! #3 (Aug 1948). These infos come from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.

7 page story "Meet the Victim You!"

Genre Crime