Lawbreakers! (1951) comic books 1955 or before

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $24.00 View scan 1" spine split from bottom. Cover and centerfold detached at one staple. 1 1/2" tear on back cover. Water spotting. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheInnerGeek

Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Art Capello. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After a bunko cop is killed, police crack down on the con games that criminal gangs are playing around the city. Three convicts plan a prison break, but unfortunately for them, the warden has a plan of his own. A masked killer targets Big Joe Galinki's crooked dice games. Plus true facts about how police track criminals with (1950s-era) trace analysis. Crime Clues: Trapped... By a Hair!; A Sergeant Force Murder Mystery: Cop Killer; Prison Break; Death Foils a Double-Cross; Death in Dice; Insured for Murder; The Forger. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Stan Asch. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After poverty-stricken cabbie Malone foils a cab robbery, he decides to take the crook's gun and do some robbing of his own. Mob enforcer Johnnie Bacon doesn't know what to do when a business won't pay protection money, so his boss shows him. Two women work out a scheme to pick up and rob random men, but one night they pick up the wrong guy. Minute Clues; A Day for Homicide; Death Was His Business; He Wanted to Be a Detective; Murder for Nothing; The Gun; Crime from Within. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lawbreakers Suspense Stories (1953 Charlton) #10. 32 pages, Full Color.