Exposed (1948 True Crime Cases) comic books 1949
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Issue #5
Published 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.
Stories and art by Walter Johnson, Bob Jenney, Edmond Good and Red Holmdale. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. Kip Dawn and his redheaded assistant Poppy Fields investigate a larcenous couple and a jewel robbery, but they have science on their side. Breeze Lawson, Sky Sheriff, intervenes in his plane when gangsters try to execute a winning racehorse and its rider, lovely Lorna. Tough-guy detective Dave Lance recalls his first case, when he investigated murder on the docks at age 13. Hot Zircon; The Bride Was Dead; Professor Poop's Invention; Studio Murder; Confession!; The Case of the Telltale Bullet; The Body on the Beach; Breeze Lawson: Double Handicap; Dave Lance: The Dock Killers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #6
Published 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 Ed Waldman. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Ed Waldman, John Rosenberger, Art Gates, Valerie Barclay and Myron Fass. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. This issue was cited in the illustrations (#28, "How to prepare an alibi") of the famous anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. A daredevil tries to use his skills for crime, in a story that features a guy in a Humpty Dumpty costume jumping off a high wall. A gambler thinks he's found the perfect system, in an early story by future EC legend Graham Ingels. An ex-con sets out for revenge on the partner who set him up. The Fatal Masquerade; The Fighter Who Sang Tenor; The Perfect Alibi; Take It or Else!; Lure of the City; Airtight Alibi. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #7
Published 1949 by D.S. Publishing.$230.00
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Cover by Al Camy. Stories and art by Bob Jenney, Alden McWilliams, Richard Case and Al Camy. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. This issue was cited in the illustrations (#29, " Diagram for Housebreakers") of the famous anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. A spiteful old woman invites her family to the reading of her new will, practically inviting one of them to murder her. The Fatal Reflex, a Crime-O-Graph story about a faked suicide, features the art that later appeared in Seduction of the Innocent. Private eye Malcolm Starr is seemingly aided by a ghost while seeking the killer of a famous explorer in an old dark house. The Midnight Guest; The Spiteful Will of Sybil MacPherson; The Fatal Reflex; 50-Fathom Fortune; The Price of Greed; Dynamite; Framed for Prison; The Guilty Ghost. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #8
Published 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 Al Camy. Stories and art by Ed Waldman, Art Gates, Walter Davoren, Frank Siminski, Paul Reinman, Lawrence Dresser, Dan Loprino and Gus Ricca. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. After trophy wife Mary is murdered at a ski resort, the suspects are many, but the snow provides a vital clue. "Circus trouble-shooter" Bob Wayne figures out how to pick the pickpockets out of a circus crowd. When a movie actress is murdered aboard a millionaire's yacht, the suspects are all famous and wealthy. Secret in the Snow; Six-Day Death; Northland Hide-Out; Picking the Pickpocket; Homicide on the High Seas; Blaze of Glory; Red for Danger; Bank Job Getaway!; Hate on a High Cliff. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #9
Published Aug 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 Louis Schroeder. Stories and art by Nat Brooks, Dan Loprino and Valerie Barclay. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. After Professor Trimble's murder, his secret discovery seems lost forever, until a police detective stumbles on a scientific clue. A governor's handsome son is abducted by a beautiful woman who wants to exchange his life for a pardon for her condemned brother, but no one expects the offbeat twist ending. Karen goes undercover with the Balkan gypsies to overthrow a cruel baron, in an early action-girl story. Scientific Murder; The Hostage; The Gypsy Baron; Death Is a Clue!; Wanted for Robbery; Stuntgirl. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
