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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published April-May 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Cover has "Underworld True Crime Stories", indicia just has "Underworld". Indexed from scanned copy at goldenagecomics.co.uk.

Cover Details - "What's the matter, Ma?"

Genre Crime
Pencils Shelly Moldoff [as Shelly]
Inks Shelly Moldoff [as Shelly]
Notes Cover has "Underworld True Crime Stories", indicia just has "Underworld". Indexed from scanned copy at goldenagecomics.co.uk.

1 page advertisement "Lose Weight Where It Shows Most"

Notes Inside front cover.

10 page story "Mother Knows Best!"

Synopsis Ma Beamus and her kids run afoul of the law.
Genre Crime

8 page story "The Notorious Angel Face"

Synopsis Connie Farrar, a pretty girl, gets away with a number of crimes, but eventually is caught.
Genre Crime
Notes Electric chair panel.

2 page A Real-Life Crime Story text article "Case of the Crooked Clock"

Genre Fact
Script Dick Kraus (credited)
Letters Typeset

5 page story "Envy"

Synopsis A maid borrows her boss's jewels, then her underworld boyfriend convinces her to help him steal the rest.
Genre Crime
Pencils Sam Cooper ? [as Cooper]; Paul Cooper ? [as Cooper]
Inks Sam Cooper ? [as Cooper]; Paul Cooper ? [as Cooper]
Notes Story is signed Cooper and Jerry Bails' Who's Who gives both Sam and Paul as working on this series.

9 page story "Blazing Guns"

Synopsis Johnny Trigger learns about being a gangster.
Genre Crime

6 page story "Crime at Midnight"

Synopsis A gangster pays a kid to swipe tires, but he ends up swiping the tires off the gangster's getaway car!
Genre Crime

7 page story "The Human Gorilla"

Genre Crime

1 page advertisement "Look, Feller"

1 page advertisement "How A Simple Discovery Made Billy A Very Happy Boy"

Synopsis Comic strip ad about learning to play piano the easy way.
Notes Inside back cover.

1 page advertisement "Talk - Sing - Play"

Synopsis Three ads.
Notes On back cover of comic.