Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) comic books 1950-1959

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Gene Leslie and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover to infiltrate a blackmail ring that uses pretty girls to capture compromising photos. Gail Ford, Girl Friday goes undercover as a cocaine dealer's girlfriend to catch drug kingpin Spade Samson. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) finds multiple suspects after a blackmailing starlet is murdered on a movie set. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Doubling For a Moll; Sally the Sleuth: Dirty Politics; Ray Hale, News Ace: Body on the Roof; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Blackmail Bump-Off. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Les Zakarin. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Robert McCarty, Jerry Altman and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. In an action-girl story, Sally the Sleuth suspects a carny clown after a go-go dancer is murdered at a carnival, leading to a battle on a roller-coaster track. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a jade dealer and uncovers a smuggling ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective investigates after a hated movie star is murdered on set, in a story with good-girl art by Robert McCarty. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Blood on the Knife; Sally the Sleuth: The Carnival Murder; Ray Hale, News Ace: Hot Hijack; Trumpet of Doom; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Make-Up For Murder. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Myron Fass cover. Sally the Sleuth in "Murder Wears a Mask" (art by Wally Wood), Ray Hale in "A Noose for News" (art by Ken Battefield), Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in "Bellyboard Bump-Off!" (script by Robert Leslie Bellem), Gail Ford, Girl Friday in "The Case of the Hidden Murder" (art by Pierre Charpentier. Two page text story, "Be Careful, Killer!" by Ric Hasse. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" go undercover to catch an arson gang burning down houses for the insurance money. Reporter Ray Hale witnesses a murder by an abandoned house, but after the victim disappears, he learns he seemingly witnessed an crime that happened 18 years before. When a swimming film star dies during a dive, suspicion falls on her rescuers, who both had a reason to kill her. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Bullet of Treachery; Sally the Sleuth: Peril in the Flames; Ray Hale, News Ace: The Mysterious Tip-Off; The Hand of Fate; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Dive to Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The Hollywood Detective faces yet another on-set murder; the twist is that the victim was dressed in a gorilla suit at the time. Gail Ford investigates a crooked lottery using "punchboards," a popular pre-digital gaming system. Sally The Sleuth is on the case when a pin-up artist is stalked by a shapely killer in a cat's mask. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Terror on the Highway; Sally the Sleuth: Prowling Cat; Death on the Lam; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Case of the Slain Gorilla. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Tony Tallarico, Ray McClelland, Pierre Charpentier, John C. Mitchell, Bill Fraccio, William Grew and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The ol' "injury-to-the-eye motif" returns, as Dan Turner seeks a killer who fires poison darts into his female victims' eyes! This story also features a deadly Punch & Judy show, hilarious Dan Turner tough-guy dialogue, and a villainous puppet-master who resembles Marvel's Puppet Master. Gail Ford goes undercover at a costume party to catch a wealthy man's killer, in a story with plentiful action-girl art. Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" are mystified when an executed killer seemingly returns from the dead...for revenge. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Murder at First Base; Sally the Sleuth: Back From the Dead; Steve Wilder: Stuck With Murder; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Poisoned Puppet. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #7, while the numbering continues with Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.