Cri Cri comic books issue 10

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Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Newton H. Alfred and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Redheaded reporter Ruth Meriden helps Ray Hale track the bespectacled spy known as The Owl, in a story combining good-girl and action-girl art. Gail Ford goes undercover as a "taxi dancer" to catch a killer and tracks down a fugitive druglord as a bonus, in a story with action-girl art by Keats Petree. After a cinematographer's on-set practical joke humiliates two movie starlets, Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective must figure out which one killed him, in a story with good-girl art (and a girl-fight) by Max Plaisted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Dime-A-Dance Death; Sally the Sleuth: Death Watch; Ray Hale, News Ace; The Sinister Guest; No Crooks Wanted; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Death Trumps the Joker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Features some truly gruesome pre-code treasures: live burial, hypodermic needle panels, bondage, Chinese water torture, and decapitation by dogs!

Cover by Bill Fraccio. Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, Tony Tallarico and A. C. Hollingsworth. Pre-Code tales of two-fisted criminals and the scales of justice from Story Comics. By this point, Fight Against Crime was edging away from crime stories to EC-style horror, as these stories demonstrate. Escaped convict Tony uses a snake to get rid of his wealthy wife, but meets an ironic fate. A fired college professor helps a gang of crooks plan a museum heist, and winds up as one of the exhibits. Gangster Lew uses dogs to get rid of his partner in crime, but meets an ironic fate, creating a sort of theme for the issue. The Con's Revenge; Horror of the Fangs of Death; A Con - A Gun - A Ghost; Old Fashioned Murder!; Hounds of Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Bill Ely, Mike Roy, Gerald McCann, and Bernie Krigstein. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #70. No issue # on cover; Vol. 6, issue #10 in indicia. A gangster frames an old romantic rival and forces him to work as his butler, until one day something changes. A young hood who dreams of being an opera singer befriends an aging voice tutor. Mossy runs an expensive hideout for crooks on the lam, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. The Ashes of Simon Blackpool; The Crooked Canary; The Box of Power; The Patient Spade; The Keeper of the Nest; The Glass Enemy; Answer in the Ashes; Stanley the Curl. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Bill Ely and others. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #82. No issue # on cover; Vol. 7, issue #10 in indicia. Herbie idolizes his visiting Uncle Jerry, but his parents suspect Jerry's really a gangster. The use of bloodhounds in tracking criminals. A Southern belle romances a poor musician on a Mississippi gambling paddleboat. Also featuring a vintage Boy Scouts voting-drive PSA. What Uncle Jerry Gave Me; The Chunk of Regret; The Auctioneer; The Stringed Trap; Long-Eared Cop; Soft Touch; T.N.T. Banquet. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Crime Wave" (Tony DiPreta art), "The Guinea Pig" (art by Jack Keller), "Murder Will Out," and "Mugger at Large." Two page text story, "The Curse of the Thgalna Ruby." Cover price $0.10.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955) #58-61. Our latest deluxe hardcover - including every uncensored page from Crime Does Not Pay issues #58 to #61 - is packed with timeless true-crime tales by artists George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Dan Barry, Charles Biro, and others! This volume also features an enlightening new foreword by Eisner Award-winning writer Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer)! Hardcover, 280 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Mo Marcus, Al Gordon, Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth and H. C. Kiefer. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm probes the riddle of a deadly hoax. Ray Hale, star reporter of the Midvale Clarion, proves that the press is an ally to police and ordinary citizens alike. Lighthearted werewolf/vampire cover by Myron Fass. Lance Storm: The Hoax of Death; Death Rides High; Frozen Fear; Second Attempt; Ray Hale-News Ace. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Richard Kraus and Al Feldstein. Art by Al Feldstein, Stan Ash and H. C. Kiefer. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Desperate for a job, Nina becomes a dime-a-dance girl, but when steady customer Frank falls for her, she must keep it a secret from her crooked boss Steve. When a railroad card game leads to murder on a train, the train's Inspector must track down deadly card-sharp Jim Leech. Artist Henry Brand finds his calling by painting ringer racehorses to look like the real thing so gangsters can fix races. Dance-Hall Racket; The Ace of Spades; The Ten O-Clock Burglars; The Horse Painter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Wilbur Underhill, Tri-State Terror" art by B. Darrow, retitled and reprinted as "Tri-State Terror.." in Startling Terror Tales (1953-54 2nd Series) #5; "The Deadly O'Donnell Brothers" retitled and reprinted as "Evil Empire of Crime.." in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #10; and "The Fleagle Brothers" art by Eddie Schwartz. "The Shattered Alibi" text story retitled and reprinted as "Crazy to Kill!!" in Spook (1954) #22. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Art by Dick Wood, Bernard Sachs and Dan Barry. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #22. No issue # on cover; Vol. 2, issue #10 in indicia. Stupid but tough Gyp takes on the cops with hand grenades. A parrot becomes a murder witness. Thomaso Malvini is the terror of Renaissance Rome. Also featuring an unusual vintage ad for gravestones (!) from the Rockdale Monument Company. Gyp The Blood; Full Payment At Death...; Corny the Salesman; A Racket Is Born; Case of the Killer Parrot; 40-Notch Hardin; Thomaso the Terrible. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Art by Leonard Starr and Jules Steiner. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #34. No issue # on cover; Vol. 3, issue #9 in indicia. Arsonist-for-hire Big Bertha helps pull insurance scams, but her fires aren't cheap. A henpecked husband turns to crime to placate his wife. The story of legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin is actually a comics version of the Alfred Noyes poem "The Highwayman." Also featuring a vintage ad for the "All-Over Rain Cover," basically a tent-shaped two-person umbrella. Bad Dick Turpin; The Creek and David Paul; Moolah; Big Bertha, The 3-Alarm Grandmother; Free Wheeling; He Thought Of Everything; Dog Eat Dog. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by John Prentice, Dick Hall, Al Ulmer and Bernie Krigstein. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #46. No issue # on cover; Vol. 4, issue #10 in indicia. A story called 22,000 Dollars Worth of Wheelbarrows, featuring early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. A barmaid falls for notorious French highwayman Claude Duval. A crook's love of music reveals him to the cops. 22,000 Dollars Worth of Wheelbarrows; The Orders from the Lotus Garden; Canned Music; The Coffin; Bon Voyage; The Royal Mobster; Practice; The Man from Cairo. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 10, Issue 1 - January 1949. Vintage true crime magazine with a focus on short stories that involve organized crime, murder, and fast women. Stories include black and white crime scene photographs. 8" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 10, Issue 2 - March, 1949. Vintage true crime magazine with a focus on short stories that involve organized crime, murder, and fast women. Stories include black and white crime scene photographs. 8" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Charles Raab, Leonard Starr, John Rosenberger, Clem Weisbecker, and Dan Zolnerowich. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. The life and death of Mata Hari, the famed World War I spy whose beauty was her greatest weapon. A struggling musician steals a rare violin in hopes it will bring him fame and glory, but you can't steal genius. Willie puts his nondescript looks to use when he becomes a crook, because no one can remember his face. Mata Hari; The Jungle; Color Blind; Ghost Detective; Thirty-Dollar Bills; The Stradivarius; Invisible Willie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Bill Ely, Leo Morey, Dan Zolnerowich, Al Eadeh, Gerald McCann, Mike Becker, Joseph Gagliardi and Dick Briefer. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A hired killer from the streets named "Meatball" has difficulty dealing with his upper-crust new boss and his fancy-dressed gang. A detective wages psychological warfare on a murder suspect to get him to confess. Two fieldhands commit murder, in a sort of crime version of the Steinbeck classic "Of Mice and Men," with art by Dick Briefer. The Meatball Wears A Holster; The Bottle And Beckett; A Friend From The Old Country; No Escape; The Black Waltz; The Badge; The Cabbage Can Wait; One Little Tip. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Nina Albright and Al McWilliams. Sometimes listed as Criminals on the Run Vol. 05 #3. Bespectacled, eccentric detective "King" Cole Jr. takes over his father's detective agency. Young King Cole investigates the arsonist who is causing forest fires. Sergeant Spook and Jerry try to prove that a corrupt mayor is swindling the city over a playground for impoverished kids. A reprint of the first adventure of goatee'd criminologist Doctor Doom (no relation to Victor), as he and his students investigate deadly accidents at a skyscraper. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime-Fighting Detective (1950) #11. Young King Cole; Criminal Lawyer's Medicine; Sergeant Spook; Dr. Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian edition with $.95 cover price. "Death at the Dawn of Time!" Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by George Perez and Jerry Odrway. In an attempt to finally crush his enemies, the Anti-Monitor travels to the Dawn of Time. In a coordinated effort by the heroes and villains of the DCU, they try to prevent this killing blow, and fail. Now, only the spirit of vengeance known as the Spectre stands defiant against the total annihilation of everything. But does even this immeasurably powerful being possess enough power to stop the Anti-Monitor when the villain has added the strength of all the heroes to his own? This is the end of everything as we know it and nothing will ever be the same again, literately. Includes a look at the Monitor's Tapes. Featuring the death of Psi-Mon and the end of the multiverse. Cover price $0.95.

Volume 10 - 1st Printing. Written by Shirow Masamune. Art and Cover by Rikudou Koushi. Translated by Casper Kazor. Adapted by Kat Adler. IT'S A ZOO IN THERE! Nene and Clarion are off to take a tour of…a farm?! It might be a dystopic nightmare filled with vats of meat, but at least it has a petting zoo! When a glitch causes a the pens to open, the animals make a break for freedom. Its not long before Nene and Clarion find themselves in the middle of a stampede! Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 180 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $12.99.

"An Informal Science Fiction & Fantasy Journal." Cover by Tim Kirk. In this issue: Stanislaw Lem interview; Robert Bloch; Robert Heinlein. Cover price $1.00.

True crime articles, stories and photos. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 10, Issue 6 - November, 1953. True crime articles, stories and photos. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Fred Peters, John Alton, Johnny Craig, and Al Feldstein. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. In an important shift in EC and comics history, artist Al Feldstein introduces the Vault Keeper, who would shortly take over the title and convert it into the influential EC horror comic Vault of Horror. An explorer is haunted after taking a sacred ruby from a stone idol, in a story by Johnny Craig. A man attempts the perfect murder, in a story by little-seen artist Fred Peters. Buried Alive!; The Man Death Wanted, Methods of the Master!; Perfect Murder, The Idols Revenge! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. "Death at the Dawn of Time!" Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by George Perez and Jerry Odrway. In an attempt to finally crush his enemies, the Anti-Monitor travels to the Dawn of Time. In a coordinated effort by the heroes and villains of the DCU, they try to prevent this killing blow, and fail. Now, only the spirit of vengeance known as the Spectre stands defiant against the total annihilation of everything. But does even this immeasurably powerful being possess enough power to stop the Anti-Monitor when the villain has added the strength of all the heroes to his own? This is the end of everything as we know it and nothing will ever be the same again, literately. Includes a look at the Monitor's Tapes. Featuring the death of Psi-Mon and the end of the multiverse. Cover price $0.75.

Issue 10. Tales of a Hard-Boiled Australian Detective, Larry Kent. Character created by Ron Ingleby. 7" x 10.25". 24 pages. Black and white.

Flaming Justice starring Lariat Lucy Lang, Sheriff Lang (her father), and Jim Howell (her boyfriend). Death Collects the Ransom starring Tex Gordon and Betty Branch (heiress, guest at dude ranch). Gold Brings Death starring Six-Gun Smith, Sue Crain (daughter of prospector), and Ace Hammond (villain, gambler). Lawman--Junior Size text story by Rhett Rutledge. Unexpected Owlhoots starring Wilma West (owner of the WW ranch) and Sonora Sam (her faithful friend). 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Pre-Code crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Reporter Steve Ayers investigates after a beauty contestant is murdered on stage in front of thousands of witnesses. Ma Barker and her sons become the first family of crime, until the Feds catch up with them. Killer Eddie Doll falls in love with a woman while masquerading as a Treasury agent and decides to go straight, but his telltale tattoo and his criminal nature give him away. Followed by issues #4 and #5; then changes title to All Famous Police Cases (1952-54). Murder Weapon Mixup!; Murder Will Out!; Eyes of the Killer!; Fingers of Guilt; Tattoo of Crime! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Reprints newspaper comic strips: This issue contains strips from "Rip Kirby" by Alex Raymond, "Tandra" by Hanthercraft Publications and "Mandrake the Magician" by Lee Falk and Phil Davis. 8 1/2-in X 15-in, 16 pages, B&W Cover price $0.60.

Vol. 10, No. 1. January 1952. Sensationalistic tales of true crime. 8.5" x 11". 82 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.