Famous Crimes (1948) 3
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Issue #3
Published Oct 1948 by Fox Feature Syndicate.- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4688928019
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Two electrocution stories and injury-to-eye story used in Seduction of the Innocent. Art by Louis Ravelli and others. One of the era's notorious crime comics, presenting violent acts, some inspired by actual events, as cautionary tales. Escaped convict George Sitts kills two cops and gets the chair; Bobby Webb and his gang go on a murderous crime spree across Chicago; Teen hood Jack Hammer graduates to truck hijacking, but a scheme for revenge proves his undoing. This issue was mentioned in Seduction of the Innocent for its use of the notorious injury to the eye motif. Geo. Sitts: Killer on the Loose!; Bobby Webb: The Chicago Terror; Odds Can Be Even; Jack Hammer: The Handsome Hi-Jacker!; Rita Boone. In order of appearance: "Geo. Sitts, Killer on the Loose!" art by Louis Ravielli; "Bobby Webb, The Chicago Terror"; "Jack Hammer, The Handsome Hi-Jacker!" retitled and reprinted as "The Bloody Era...!" in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #14; and "Rita Boone". "Odds Can Be Even" text story. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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