Comic books graded by CGC
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Item #64276121
Published Sep 1951 by Trojan Magazines.Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) 6 CGC 3.5
Paper: White
Label #4668586011
Starts Apr 4 Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" go undercover to catch an arson gang burning down houses for the insurance money. Reporter Ray Hale witnesses a murder by an abandoned house, but after the victim disappears, he learns he seemingly witnessed an crime that happened 18 years before. When a swimming film star dies during a dive, suspicion falls on her rescuers, who both had a reason to kill her. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Bullet of Treachery; Sally the Sleuth: Peril in the Flames; Ray Hale, News Ace: The Mysterious Tip-Off; The Hand of Fate; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Dive to Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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