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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published April 1952
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Sol Cohen

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Notes Cover painting from the paperbacks Sinister Errand by Peter Cheyney, Avon #114, and Unfaithful by John Baxter, Avon #647.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "contents page"

Genre Crime
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Notes On inside front cover.

7 page story "Marion Gilmore -- Queen of the Waterfront Gangs"

Genre Crime
Pencils Joe Kubert [as JK] (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert [as JK] (signed)
Notes Reprint info by Richard Arndt via Per Sandell, Dec 2004.
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #1

6 page story "Vinnie Sherwood -- The Racket King"

Genre Crime
Pencils Mike Becker (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)
Notes Reprint info by Richard Arndt via Per Sandell, Dec 2004.
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #1

6 page story "The Fiddler of Death"

Genre Crime
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]

1 page text story "She Murdered for Money"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]

1 page text story "Juanita Spinelli -- Duchess of Crime"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]

6 page story "Pete Loris and the Flathead Gang"

Genre Crime
Reprinted in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]