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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published November 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD

Cover Details

11 page story The True Story of Jack "Legs" Diamond

Characters Mr. Crime
Genre Crime
Script Dick Wood
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

4 page story "The Mystery of Indian Dick and the Phantom Gold Mine"

Genre Western; Crime
Pencils Bart Tumey [as Tumey]
Inks Bart Tumey [as Tumey]
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

7 page story "His Mother's Ghastly Vision"

Genre Crime
Pencils Buriokoff
Inks Buriokoff
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

8 page story "Death Works Overtime the True Story of Philadelphia's Poison Ring"

Genre Crime
Script Ivy
Pencils Al Mandel
Inks Al Mandel
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

6 page story "The Amazing Mystery of the Murders of Maltese Mansion"

Genre Crime
Pencils Norman Maurer
Inks Norman Maurer
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

2 page text story "The Strange Case of the Four-Legged Witness"

Genre Crime
Script Bob Wood? [as Woody Hamilton]
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

1 page story "Conny the Convict"

Genre Humor
Pencils Louis Trakis
Inks Louis Trakis
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

10 page story "Billy the Kid"

Genre Western; period
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

5 page story "Corpses for Sale"

Genre Crime
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]

8 page story "The Millen-Faber Case"

Genre Crime
Pencils Frank Giacoia
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn]