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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published June 1949
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 36
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Cover Details

Genre crime

8 page story "The Human Bomb"

Characters Anton Kordo
Synopsis This is the tale of Anton Kordo, a "true split personality," who vacillated between regular family man and canny thief whose signature was that he carried a vial of nitroglycerin in his pocket so the police were afraid to take him down for fear of being blown up.
Genre crime
Notes This is the "transvestite" story as identified in Overstreet and consists of a three panel scene where Kordo dresses up as a woman to escape capture.

8 page story "Blades of Doom!"

Characters Jack the Ripper [Western villain]
Synopsis This is the story of a notorious outlaw who ran crooked gambling games and used two throwing knives instead of guns.
Genre crime; western
Pencils Sy Grudko
Inks Sy Grudko

6 page story "The Man Who Talked Too Much"

Characters Ross Barton
Synopsis The tale of a loud mouthed mechanic who went on a crime spree to prove he was a better bad guy than Dillinger.
Genre crime

2 page text story "The Death Signal"

Genre crime
Script Alan Ross
Letters Typeset

8 page story "The Ghoulish Gambler"

Characters The story of a chronic gambler who turned to poisoning people to settle his debts.
Genre crime
Pencils Frank Giacoia
Inks Bob Lander

3 page advertisement "Advertisements"

Notes 3 full page advertisements (Interior front and back covers and back cover) for "The Weatherman" (a device to tell the weather using Disney characters), U.S. Savings Bonds and Kelpidine (a diet product) including a photo of Elizabeth Taylor.