Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) comic books 1954
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Issue #11
Published Jan 1954 by Trojan Magazines.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 Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth and H. C. Kiefer. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. The series begins edging toward pre-Code horror with this issue. Novelist Gene rents the deserted home of eccentric Simeon Graves to work on his next book, but it comes with a mysterious blonde, a dire warning, and a rumor of hidden treasure. A serial killer dares the police to stop him before he strikes again. An actor uses his skills to get away with the murder of his wife, but reliving the murder for a TV drama pushes him over the edge. Cash for a Corpse; The Strangler; Murder - and You Die!; Deadly Rendezvous; Bounty for Varmints; Dance of the Devil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #12
Published Mar 1954 by Trojan Magazines.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 Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Doug Wildey, Myron Fass, Alvin Hollingsworth and Mo Marcus. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. A monster is preying on female college students, which could have something to do with the giant leeches the school's biology teacher is growing in the nearby swamp. Inspector Bennet learns the horrifying truth behind the Jabberwocky poem, in a story with early art by Doug Wildey. Detective Brenn investigates after a woman is murdered by costumed characters near a TV studio, in a story featuring the line, "Your hillbillies just croaked a cupcake out in the alley!" Bondage cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Dead Woman's Swamp; Curse of the Jabberwock; The Television Kill; The Strange Avenger; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: The Vanishing Jewels. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #13
Published May 1954 by Trojan Magazines.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 Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Art Gates, Myron Fass, Alvin Hollingsworth, Sid Check and Angelo Torres. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. Paul becomes convinced that to save his dying wife, he must murder six women on the streets of Paris. A magician's wife and her lover plot the murder of her husband, but it's hard to trick a magician. Detective Rhodes investigates a series of cat-like murders, in a story that features the first published work of future Mad magazine artist Angelo Torres, inking the pencils of Syd Check. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Sportsman's Paradise," offering crossbows, throwing daggers and other weapons by mail. (!) Bad-girl cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Six Lives For One!; Turnabout!; The Mystery of the Cross-Eyed Cat; The Corpse in the Car; Suicide Ship. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #14
Published Jul 1954 by Trojan Magazines.$285.00
View scans- Paper: Off white
- Label #3719212013
- 3" spine split from top.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth, and Myron Fass. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. When redheaded heiress Jane marries struggling artist Roy, her disapproving guardian gives them a wedding present: a haunted house where an eccentric artist once murdered his model. Inspector Kent investigates reports of a zombie murdering the members of an adventurer's club that's seeking a lost treasure. A private eye is hired to escort a murder witness back to the city, but a gangster wants her dead. Painted in Blood; Cross a Gypsy's Palm; The Murdered Murderer; Fact into Fiction; The Road Back. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #15
Published Sep 1954 by Trojan Magazines.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 H. C. Kiefer and others. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes, an unusual mix. Detectives seeking grave-robbers wonder if it's just a case of larceny - or something more horrifying. Husband-and-wife killers on the run trust a plastic surgeon to change their faces, but the results are terrible for all concerned. Private eye Don Grady investigates a murder in a TV studio. Plus a vintage PSA, "A Bright Future with the Junior Red Cross." Feast of the Dead!; Skin Deep; Death in Room 13; Point of Death; Death Stars on TV. Final issue under this title; series continues as Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
