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Crime Detective Comics Volume 1 (1948) comic books 1955 or before

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    Crime Detective Comics Volume 1 (1948) 8
    Crime Detective Comics Volume 1 (1948) #8
    Published Jun 1949 by Hillman.
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    $63.00
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    Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Charles Raab, George Roussos, Jules Steiner, Jack Keller, Art Helfant, Max Elkan and Leonard Starr. 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 Secret Service tracks a smuggling gang in 1885 Boston, but the smugglers are always one step ahead. A Chinese farmer becomes a bandit king to provide for his son's education, but fate has a nasty trick in store. Spinster sisters Tabby and Birdie Rosebud, "the 70-year-old teenagers," take a scheming car salesman on the test-drive of his life. The Boston "Ice" Party; The Rembrandt of the Tracks; The Lesson; The Typewriter; Whistle Stop; The Rosebud Sisters; Drama Dept.; Alfie and Ralphie; The Book of Life. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.