Gangsters Can't Win (1948) comic books 1949
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Issue #6
Published Jan 1949 by D.S. Publishing.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by Paul Reinman. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Louis Zansky, Paul Reinman, and John Rosenberger. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Willie X makes a career in crime with his smarts and nerves of steel, in a story with art by future EC legend Graham Ingels. Mysterious fortune-teller Electra hypnotizes wealthy clients and creates a fortune through mind-control and murder. After murder at a circus, the reader is invited to guess which of five colorful suspects committed the crime. A Trap is Sprung; The Ghost!; Mystery at the Circus; Murder by Air!; Solid Citizen: Second Chance; The Man Who Found a Fortune; Slick Willie. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #7
Published Mar 1949 by D.S. Publishing.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by Bob Jenney. Stories and art by Bob Jenney, Alden McWilliams, Steve Kirkel, Ernie Schroeder and Ed Waldman. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. A detective solves a mystery involving an eloped couple and an unidentified body, even though he's 3000 miles away from the crime. Adventurer Whit Denham is targeted by an exact duplicate because he knows the secret of Bacteria X. An investigator probes a series of deaths in the Brazilian jungles. The Evil That Men Do; The Talisman Trail; Accidentally Its Murder ; Bacteria X; The Impostor; Dying Men of Paranha. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #8
Published May 1949 by D.S. Publishing.- Interior tearing. Lateral spine tears. Cover oxidation.
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Cover by Robert Jenney. Stories and art by Alden McWilliams and Walter Davoren. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Adventurer Dick Taylor accompanies a botanist to Nepal in search of a rare Lotus flower. An inventor sets a fatal trap for the rival who stole his invention. An embezzler plots to fake his own death in a car wreck, but that involves finding and murdering his double. The Fires of Nepal; Case Hardened Crime; Plan for Plunder; Express Elevator Down!; Off-Key Alibi; The Detective Drank Milk; Highway to Nowhere. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #9
Published Jul 1949 by D.S. Publishing.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by Ellis Chambers. Stories and art by Edd Ashe, Paul Parker, Frank Sieminski and Ed Waldman. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Inspector Dan Mundy reluctantly teams with his rival, female reporter Ida Lee, while investigating a murder at sea aboard a pleasure cruise. Ascot-wearing, pipe-smoking reporter Link Shields loves to solve crimes in his column, but the latest life under threat is his own. An ex-sign-painter uses his skills with signs to turn to crime, resulting in some creative criminal sign usage. Surprise at Buoy 13; The Case of the Deadly Dahlia; Ambush Aboard Ship; Force of Habit; The Corpse's Clue; Signs of Crime. Final issue of the series. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
