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Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) comic books 1953

  • Issue #53
    Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) 53

    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Charles Miller and others. Pre-Code crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Detectives Burns and Cooper investigate organized crime and gambling at a pari-mutuel horse track. A car thief figures out a way around new registration laws by selling and stealing the same cars over and over again. Jockey Rube Morgan has expensive tastes and gets in over his head with gangsters. The Long Shot of Evil; The Fool-Proof Plot; Some Day I'll Kill Her!; Death Held the Whip; Three Lives - Three Deaths. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.