Crime Detective Comics Volume 2 (1950) 10

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Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Bill Ely, Leo Morey, Dan Zolnerowich, Al Eadeh, Gerald McCann, Mike Becker, Joseph Gagliardi and Dick Briefer. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A hired killer from the streets named "Meatball" has difficulty dealing with his upper-crust new boss and his fancy-dressed gang. A detective wages psychological warfare on a murder suspect to get him to confess. Two fieldhands commit murder, in a sort of crime version of the Steinbeck classic "Of Mice and Men," with art by Dick Briefer. The Meatball Wears A Holster; The Bottle And Beckett; A Friend From The Old Country; No Escape; The Black Waltz; The Badge; The Cabbage Can Wait; One Little Tip. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.