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Gangsters and Gun Molls (1951) 1 CGC 5.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4593514004

Art by Wally Wood, Leonard Starr, Ed Waldman and Howard Larsen. Stories about mobsters and the women who love them, with a special focus on women who were notorious criminals in their own right. No mere gun moll, redheaded Evelyn Ellis builds her gang of hoods into a ruthless mob; The violent rise and fall of Big Jim Colosimo, leader of the Chicago Outfit; Gangster Sandy Quirk decides to take over a dance studio. Featuring a painted cover reprinted from Avon paperback #292. Evelyn Ellis—Queen of the Gangsters!; King of the Convicts!; Big Jim Colosimo; Sandy Quirk Trips the Light Fantastic. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Sensational Police Cases (1954) 0 GD- 1.8 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Color touch, spine rebuild, piece-fill, tear seals. TRIMMED. Staples added (not manufacturing).

Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art by Michael J. Becker, Gerald McCann, Goldfarb Baer, Tex Blaisdell, Sid Check, Joe Kubert, Mort Lawrence, and Howard Larsen. Reprints of Murderous Gangsters #3, Prison Break #3 and Police Lineup #3. Lurid pre-Code tales about mobsters, bank robbers and other bad guys and gals from the golden age of crime. A murdered detective sets out to ID his killer before he dies; Leech McCoy has a yen for arson and a name like a Dick Tracy villain; Redheaded Lina Foyle and her boyfriend go on a crime spree. Killer Bait; Blind Mans Bluff; Brothers in Crime; Jed Hawkins—Cold Blooded Killer; The Imperfect Crime; Nick Marek—Shakedown Racketeer; Killers on the Loose; Sonny Terhune Machine-Gun Madman; Lina Foyle Gunmoll; Clevelands Butcher of Death; Two-Dollar Murder; Death Comes Laughing; Killer at Large; Louie Gruber Czar of the Underworld; The Unseen Murderer; Death Danced the Samba; Mystery of the Headless Corpse; Leech McCoy the Incendiary Killer! 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Sensational Police Cases (1954) 3 VG 4.0

Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art by Wally Wood, Leonard Starr, Ed Waldman and Howard Larsen. Reprints from Gangsters and Gun Molls (1951) #1. True tales of gangsters and G-men, featuring pre-Code levels of violence. No mere gun moll, redheaded Evelyn Ellis builds her gang of hoods into a ruthless mob; The violent rise and fall of Big Jim Colosimo, leader of the Chicago Outfit; Gangster Sandy Quirk decides to take over a dance studio. Evelyn Ellis—Queen of the Gangsters!; King of the Convicts!; Big Jim Colosimo; Sandy Quirk Trips the Light Fantastic. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Sensational Police Cases (1954) 4 VG 4.0

Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art by Bill Molno, Leonard Starr, Ed Waldman and George Roussos. Reprints from various Avon pre-Code crime comics. True tales of gangsters and G-men, featuring pre-Code levels of violence. Escaped convicts leave a trail of violence across Arkansas; The story of Irene Schroeder, known variously as the Keystone Hellcat, Trigger Woman, Iron Irene and Tiger Girl; A Simon Templar Saint story reworked as a Michael Strong detective story. Blood on Arkansas; Killer!; Irene Schroeder; She Murdered For Money; The Diamond of Death; Juanita Spinelli--Duchess of Crime. Final issue under this title; the series continues as Captain Steve Savage (1954-56 2nd Series) #5. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Sensational Police Cases (1954) 4 VG- 3.5 (R)

Trimmed

TRIMMED. Cover coming detached at one staple.

Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art by Bill Molno, Leonard Starr, Ed Waldman and George Roussos. Reprints from various Avon pre-Code crime comics. True tales of gangsters and G-men, featuring pre-Code levels of violence. Escaped convicts leave a trail of violence across Arkansas; The story of Irene Schroeder, known variously as the Keystone Hellcat, Trigger Woman, Iron Irene and Tiger Girl; A Simon Templar Saint story reworked as a Michael Strong detective story. Blood on Arkansas; Killer!; Irene Schroeder; She Murdered For Money; The Diamond of Death; Juanita Spinelli--Duchess of Crime. Final issue under this title; the series continues as Captain Steve Savage (1954-56 2nd Series) #5. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Worlds (1950 Avon) 20 FN 6.0

Wally Wood cover (reprinting U.S. Paratroopers 1). Behind Enemy Lines! starring Sgt. Dana; The paratroopers save a bridge and take out a power station. Dangerous Mission!; Sgt Dana and his team of three go on a mission to rescue an atomic scientist from a Korean prisoner of war camp. Parachute Open! text story starring the Royal Air Force. Medal Of Honor!; a soldier posthumously receives a medal of honor, but is actually alive to receive it later. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.