Authentic Police Cases (1948 St. John) comic books 1954
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Issue #31
$99.00
View scan- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
- Cover oxidation. Water damage. Chew.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Enrico Bagnoli, and Antonio Toldo. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Vinny gets caught by the cops after a dramatic and violent pre-Code car chase, but they don't know what he did with the loot from the defense plant. Joe Dollar figures out how to muscle his way into the bookie business, but first he has to get rid of the competition. Vannie gets nervous when fellow crimelord Doc demands to retire, with years' worth of evidence as his insurance policy. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Seven Years Late for Death; Joe Dollars Last Loan; The Jensen-Kelly Feud; You Can Fight Crime; The Man Who Couldnt Die. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #32
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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Enrico Bagnoli, and Antonio Toldo. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Giant Edition. The Keely Mob finds a new angle: taking over a Catskills resort. A killer counts on the fact that his wife is the only one who can identify him. The Coney Island gang finds death on the boardwalk. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Killers on a Spree; Coney Island Jackpot; Short Circuit Trap; The Strange Fugitive; Bandits Bride. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #33
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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Enrico Bagnoli, and Antonio Canale. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Giant Edition. Appalachian hillbillies feud violently over "Mountain Dew," back when the phrase was slang for moonshine whiskey. Johnny Usher is dangerous, but he's never killed anyone...yet. Pittsburgh Phil and Kid Twist are ordered to knock off stool pigeon Rudnick, in a story with art by future Marvel legend Gene Colan. Terrific bad-girl cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Mt. Dew Murder; Murder, Inc.s #1 Boy; Nothing to Lose; The Criminals Worst Enemy; Jim the Penman; Shield Against Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #34
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split with some splitting through several wraps.
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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by John Celardo and others. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. The FBI and Scotland Yard track a gang of murderous jewel thieves to the frozen wastes of Greenland, in a story that may be early work by Frank Thorne. Mounties King and Bernard travel by dogsled to track poacher Johnson, described in the captions as a "human wolverine," but he proves too tough for just two Mounties. Donovan investigates when Marian denies that the body recovered from a plane crash is that of her husband Bill. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. The Case of the International Jewel Thieves; Monument to Death; The Arctic Menace; Storm Patrol; Corpses in the Caribbean. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #35
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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Terry is the one cop who can stop Chad Ludwig and his mob, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. In another Baker story, the Mounties go after outlaw James J. "Make-a-Million" Milton, otherwise known as "the red-bearded rogue." Vic Flint takes a vacation to the lake with an old Marine buddy and stumbles on a blackmail plot. Cover by Baker. Odds Against the Outlaws; Midwest Cops Smash the Crimson Gang!; Vic Flint: The Case of Lake Mystery; The Case of the Red Bearded Rogue. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #36
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Cover by Henry Sharp. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Rookie cop Bill goes up against his own uncle, a powerful crime boss, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. In another Baker story, detectives Pete and Hugh go after the Bulletproof Bandits, who elude pursuit, resist witness description, and are seemingly immune to bullets. A judge hires private eye Vic Flint to investigate the gangland-style murder of gambler Jimmy Jerce. Cover by Baker is a reversal of the standard woman-in-jeopardy image of many crime-comics covers. Crooked Paths to Prison; Rookie Cop Traps the Kingpin of Crime; Vic Flint: The Jerce Murder; Police Valor Defies the Bulletproof Bandits. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
