Justice Traps the Guilty (1947 Prize) comic books 1938-1955

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. Gun Moll!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; a girl faces a jury who accuses her of being a gun moll. The Killer Thought He Was Satan; a Midwestern sheriff faces off against Chief Satan. Sudden Switch for Murder text story. You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Trap a Criminal, art by Bill Draut. The Murdering Bender Family. The True Life Story of Alvin Karpis, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Charles Atlas comic strip ad. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Buried Treasure Fraud, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; a confidence team tries to outsmart the law. So Many Ways to Die!, art by Bill Draut; none of the residents at a nursing home die from old age. The Capture of Night-Club Nick, art by Warren Broderick. Suicide or Murder? text story. My Strangest Crime Case starring Private Investigator Ruth Lang, art by Bill Draut. Ask Eddie Green, Consultant to Crime, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Ad for Young Romance comics. My Personal Comic Album comic holder ad. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Queen of the Speed-Ball Mob, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; a woman runs the fastest fleet of gateway cars in the country. The Lincoln Tomb Thieves! starring secret service agent Roy Allen. Guilty Boys, pencils by Jerry Robinson, inks by Mort Meskin; a group of youngsters providing their own entertainment on a street corner of New Yorks lower east side gives mobster Rink Ballou the idea for a racket. The Half-Pint Killer! starring Francis Two-gun Crowley. Counterfeit Ca$h!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Ad for Young Romance and Headline Comics. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. The Money-Making Machine Swindlers!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; Stella Brady exposes a counterfeit money operation. Mind Over Murder!; Sigmund Turner of the Viennese Police turns the tables on Jack Benjamin, who has hidden his murder weapon. 3 Sinister Salesmen, art by A. C. Hollingsworth. The Capture of 'One-Eye'!, art by Al Feldstein and Jack Kirby. Gerald Woodworth... The Vanishing Bandit. Ad for Romance Comics. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Phony Check Racketeers, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; the T-Men must smash a vicious racket. Burke and Hare, The True Story of an Unholy Partnership; Burke and Hare terrorize Scotland. Desperate Bad Man! Paris Manhunt!; Vincenzio Perugia falls under the spell of the Mona Lisa. The Man Who Died Twice, art by Warren Broderick. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. The Fall of Classy Eddie Bentz--Underworld Snob, pencils by Jack Kirby; a story about Eddie Bentz, one of the craftiest crooks the FBI ever face. The Violent Mr. Peace; Charles Peace, one of the most successful burglars to ever plague Scotland Yard, is tripped up by a piece of evidence. Eugene Vidocq...First Great Detective, pencils by Bernard Krigstein. The First Hundred Are the Hardest text story. End of a Blackmailer, art by Manny Stallman. The Man Who Was Ashamed of Doing Good...Joe Slade, Wild West Jekyll and Hyde Desperado!, pencils by Will Elder. The Masked Killer text story, pencils by Jack Kirby. Ad for Young Romance and Young Love comics. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. Small-Time Crooks!; the story of Socks Ford and Oscar Peters, who were clever enough to steal over $250,000 worth of jewels from a thief-proof express warehouse, but stupid to get any money for it. Shoulders Malone, the Chopper; story about a crook who can break open safes and vaults by ripping them apart. Amateur Hypnotist, pencils by Dick Briefer. Insurance Sleuth. Counterfeit text story. Hijackers! The Tragedy of Tom Horn, pencils by John Severin, inks by John Belfi. Ad for Casey on the Mound baseball game. Ad for Lone Ranger Silver Bullet Ball Pen set. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. Pirates of the Poor, art by Marvin Stein; an expose of the relief check racketeers. Playking athletic belt comic strip ad. Optical Illusion; Ralph Cooper by a 25-cent book that enables him to hypnotize people. The Way to Prison, pencils by John Severin. Closeups text article. Silent Witness, pencils by Mart Bailey. Fall Guy, pencils by John Severin. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Marvin Stein. Art by Mort Meskin and others. Pioneering crime comic Justice Traps the Guilty was produced by the studio of comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, creators of Captain America. A crook stages phony auto accidents and shakes down the hapless drivers for money. Burglars trying to rob an Egyptian exhibit run afoul of an ancient curse. Cop Pete encounters the boy he befriended as a kid, now grown into a dangerous killer. Payoff in Pain; Closeups; Curse of Me-Meb; Two Dollars Too Much; The Weakest Link; Cops Don't Cry; Human Cargo. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Marvin Stein. Art by Marvin Stein and Mort Meskin. Pioneering crime comic Justice Traps the Guilty was produced by the studio of comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, creators of Captain America. A con man hires a killer as his new partner - but first he must get rid of the old partner. An elderly shut-in plans to kill his neighbor to get his spot by the window. A man becomes a vicious thug after his brother is killed by cops during a robbery. Art from this issue is featured in Dr. Fredric Wertham's 1954 anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, illustration #14, with the caption, "Treating police contemptuously is a comic-book commonplace." The Swindler; Something to Kill for!; The Last Laugh; Closeups; Desert Justice; Cotton Clue; Two-Gun Crowley. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.