Crime Detective Comics Volume 3 (1952) comic books with issue numbers 1-2

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Stories and art by Gerald McCann, Bill Ely, Paul Reinman 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 killer stalks the night in 1910 Paris. New York hoods Chick and Monte feud over Monte's automobile and Chick's girlfriend, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. A cheap hood thinks he's hit the big time when he stumbles across a bank robbery in progress. The Nightwalker; Dugan's Leather Joker; The Boiler Comes to Town; Alvin Takes Over; The Stuffed Farmhouse. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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 deep-cover agent has no idea that "Center," the mysterious head of his spy ring, is actually his wife. A crook obsessed with wind-up toys plans an elaborate scam to cover up bank embezzlement. A robbery gone wrong in London results in the infamous 1911 gun battle known as the Siege of Sidney Street. Orders from Center; Something for Mother; The Playful Engineer; The Little Enemy; The Siege of Sidney Street; Gangland Guns; The Patchwork Gentleman. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.