Crime Detective Comics Volume 1 (1948) 4

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Mike Suchorsky, Clem Weisbecker, Charles Raab, John Belfi and Tony DiPreta. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. The true story of notorious 19th-century British burglar and killer Charles Peace. The Gopher Gang terrorizes Hell's Kitchen in the early 1910s, even masquerading as policemen. In 1920s London, insurance investigator Leopold Harris turns to arson for hire. The Man from Angel Court; The Can Openers; Something for the Ladies; The Torch; The Greedy Cane; The Student; The Stolen Ship. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.