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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published October 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Information on this issue provided by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.

Cover Details - "I Met My Murderer!"

Genre Crime
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Information on this issue provided by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.

8 page story "The Secret of the Smiling Maiden!"

Characters Vincenzio Leopardi
Synopsis Story based on the historic theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Musée du Louvre on 21 August, 1911 by museum employee Vincenzo Perrugia.
Genre Crime
Pencils Chu Hing
Inks Chu Hing
Notes For some reason, the museum and painting are referred to as the "Museum of Classical Art" and "The Smiling Maiden", repsectively. The thief is called "Vincenzio Leopardi," and the date of the theft given as 23 September.

7 page story "I Am My Own Murderer!"

Genre Crime

2 page text story "The Shivering Flame"

Genre crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #99 (March 1951); in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #2 (May 1951)

1 page Wanted by the F.B.I. public service announcement

Genre Crime

1 page Blaze the Wonder Collie promo (ad from the publisher) "The Most Wonderful Dog in the World!"

8 page story "The Killer Who Walked Like a Man!"

Genre Crime
Notes Story shows considerable similarity to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe (1841).