Crime Detective Comics Volume 2 (1950) 6

Add to cart GD 2.0 $40.00 View scan 2 1/2" cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple, centerfold detached. Cover oxidation. Water spotting. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Al Eadeh, Dan Zolnerowich, Gerald McCann, Art Peddy, George Olesen and Mort Lawrence. 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 porcine restaurateur manages to keep mobsters in check because of a black book that could send them all down the river. The story of Marcus Crassus, the Roman general who parlayed his military successes into wealth and power. An arsonist's love of his pet rats proves to be his undoing. The Hog Has a Book; The Rise and Fall of Dummy Johnson; The Boy in the Nightgown; Good-Bye Bundle; The Rat Man; The Guy in the Window; Busted Rainbow; War of the Worsteds. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.