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.