Crime Detective Comics Volume 2 (1950) 7
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$42.00
View scans- Water spotting.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Paul Parker, Lawrence Dresser, Gerald McCann, George Olesen and Bernie Krigstein. 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 gangster blackmails the husband of a famous actress with evidence of his criminal past. A successful executive and her jealous husband are bound by a childhood accident and her fear of fire, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein, by now displaying his recognizable style and signature. A US Savings Bonds PSA, with art by Crime Does Not Pay legend Charles Biro - a rare appearance of that artist in this comic. The Actress and Her Puppet; The Kind Right Arm; Uncle Sam Has a Green Thumb; The Shepherd Boy; The Fractured Mint; The Letter from Italy; The Price Tag; The Huckster's Castle. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.


