Wanted Comics (1947 Orbit / Toytown) 38
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Issue #38
$32.50
View scans- Staple rust. Centerfold detached at one staple.
$13.00
View scan- Cover detached at one staple. Water damage. 1" Spine split from top.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Syd Shores. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Leav, Vince Alascia, and Bill Woolfolk. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. An early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. Two shipwreck survivors in a raft realize there's only enough water left for one of them. The Great Unsolved Mysteries contest invites readers to ponder a royal murder mystery. "Crime Lab" detectives "Loot" and "Doc" investigate a man who believes he killed a gambler while drunk, but something doesn't add up. Diamonds of Death; Paul Buka the Cultured Killer; Wanted: Thomas James Holden; Wanted: John Marin; The Survivor; Crime Lab: The Man Who Gambled With Death; Great Unsolved Mysteries: The Strange Case of the Duke Of Cumberland; Wanted: Steven William Davenport; Frame-Up. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
