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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published April 1949
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Basic information for this issue supplied by the Timely/Atlas discussion list.

Cover Details - "Rico Mancini, the Deadly Dude!"

Genre Crime
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes Buscema credit from Back-Up #14 (edited by Tristan Lapoussière), submitted by Stéphane Petit via the GCD Errors List (February 2009). Additional art information from the John Buscema checklist by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Michel Maillot.

13 page story "Rico Mancini The Deadly Dude!"

Genre Crime
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes Art credits from the John Buscema checklist by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Michel Maillot.

1 page Are You a Detective? story "The Farmer in the Well!"

Genre Crime
Script Allen Bellman
Pencils Allen Bellman [as A. B.]
Inks Allen Bellman [as A. B.]

1 page text article "A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents!"

Letters Typeset
Notes Editorial.

2 page text story "Prison Break"

Genre Crime
Letters Typeset

5 page story "The Fatal Partnership!"

Genre Crime

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

6 page story "Murder Will Out!"

Genre Crime
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes Art credits from the John Buscema checklist by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Michel Maillot.