Cri Cri comic books issue 4

Vol. 4, No. 9. March 1949. True Crime Magazine. 8.5" x 11". 64 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Gardner Fox, Howard Larson, Sheldon Moldoff, and Al Feldstein. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. Mobsters with machineguns go on a crime spree, in an Al Feldstein story. The train-themed story "Choo-Choo Jones" was created at the request of EC publisher and comics pioneer Max Gaines' request, shortly before his untimely death. An unusual piece of jewelry thwarts a band of thieves, with art by Howard Larson. The Machine-Gun Mad Mobsters; Choo-Choo Jones; The Robbery Ring. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Quantril, The Killer's Killer" art by Johnny Craig; "Joaquin Murieta...The Fabled Killer, Caballero of California"; and "The Daring Delaney's, The Circus Cut-Throats". "Can't Teach an Old Sheriff New Tricks?" text story. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Irv Novick, Nick Cardy, Arthur Peddy, and Mike Suchorsky. Cover by Norman Saunders. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A tough hood gets his comeuppance in prison; a new hero is introduced, private eye Barney Bailey. Big Shot in the Big House; The Heart of a Con; Nobody Cheats the Hangman; Sidewalk Serenade; plus gag strips and a text story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

True Crime magazine featuring articles and photos. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Issue 4 - "Murder for What?". Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $2.00.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Suspenstories (1950-1954 E.C. Comics) #16-19. EC's Crime SuspenStories featured some of the best crime comics work ever. If you're into Stray Bullets, Sin City or any of today's crime comics, wait until you get a load of these classics! Another great way to collect all of these EC classics is the handy Annuals. Softcover, full color. Cover price $10.50.

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. "Thus Shall the World Die!" Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by George Perez and Dick Giordano. 1st appearance of Lady Quark and the female Dr. Light. Another world succumbs to the destructive power of the relentless anti-matter wave, but this time the mysterious man known as Pariah is able to save the life of one person, if only for a little while longer. Meanwhile, the android known as Red Tornado is captured by the enemy, and the Monitor is betrayed by his most trusted ally. Featuring the death of the Monitor. Cover price $0.75.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Critter (2012 Big Dog Ink) Volume 2 #11-15. Written by Tom Hutchison. Art by Fico Ossio and Alisson Borges. Cover by Fico Ossio. High Tide hits the United States as Tidepool returns from the Depths with a vengeance. Critter must muster the troops from across the country and from across the dimensions to fight off this unearthly manifestation that is already responsible for the sinking of Atlantis - and the United States may be next. Softcover, 136 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Issue 4. Tales of a Hard-Boiled Australian Detective, Larry Kent. Character created by Ron Ingleby. 7" x 10.25". 24 pages. Black and white.

(W) Doug Wagner (A) Daniel Hillyard (CA) Jason Pearson. After being ambushed while conducting an investigation in a small Montana town, ICE agents Cole and Ezra escape to the safety of a deserted hunting cabin. While doing recon, they discover helicopters, dead pilots, and a radiation badge in the dead pilot's hand. Cole and Ezra realize this has just become much more serious than drugs - terrorists have smuggled nuclear materials across the American border! 24 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.

Cover art by Warren Kremer (?). "Stool Pigeon's Swan Song"; Hicky Ranse informs on the mob and gets killed for his trouble. "Too Hot to Handle," pencils by Gene Colan; Arch Bettner is a master bank robber who dies while trying to escape in a dumbwaiter. "Murder - and the Crowd Roars"; Wolf Logan is an ex-boxer and now spends his time fixing fights. "News Reporter's Dilemma" text story. "The Death Touch of Chick Rigney," art by Louis Zansky; Chick Rigney decides the higher-ups in the mob are taking to much money so he begins to rub out his bosses. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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No. 4. 8" x 10.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

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Cover art by Les Zakarin [as Zak]. Bullets For Ballots starring Fighting Bob Dale. Kate's Seven Day Wonder starring K-Bar Kate, art by Rex Maxon (signed R. Hayden). Gunsmoke and the Gambling Lady starring Six-Gun Smith, art by Berthold Tiedemann. Greed For Gold text story by Ralph Sedgwick Douglas. Peril In Owlhoot Valley starring Wilma West, art by Keats Petree. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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L.B. Cole cover. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. In order of appearance: "Gangland Mouthpiece" art by Art Gates; "Murder of Convenience" art by Jay Disbrow; "Trap the Killers!!" retitled and reprinted from "The Polkadot Gang" in Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #13; and "This Is a Holdup!" retitled and reprinted from "The Blue Handkerchief Gang" in Famous Crimes (1948) #12. Text stories: "Eyewitness" reprinted from Young King Cole Vol. 3 (1947-48) #7 and "Slice of the Take" reprinted from Young King Cole Vol. 1 (1946) #3. Indicia states "ALL-FAMOUS CRIME". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover. Stories by unknown. Art by Vern Henkel. From the files of the famous C.B.S. radio thriller! Featuring Casey Crime Photographer in: "Lend Me Your Life!"; "'Ma' Jenkins, Gang Boss!"; and "The Mystery of the Dead Man's Hands!" Plus: back-up story "Three Were Strangers!" And: 2-page text story "Black Horror"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Signed, First Edition, limited to 150 copies printed. In the aftermath of the Cerebus finale, fans and artists describe how Dave Sim and the Cerebus comic affected their lives. Includes the story of a fans feud with Sim, and a 12-page Blink/Cerebus crossover by Max Ink. Stories and art by Steve Peters, Max Ink, Elizabeth Bardawill, Oliver Simonsen, Matt Dow, Jeff Seiler, and Jeff Tundis. Autographed by all artists; but note that the signatures of Sim, Bardawill, Simonsen and Dow were done on adhesive labels and applied to the signature page in absentia. 8 1/2″ X 11″. Cover by Dave Sim and Steve Peters. Cover price $12.00.

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Written by Steven Grant. Art and Cover by Pete Woods. When a federal agent becomes a victim of the system he has sworn to uphold, he finds true justice in the criminal underworld. The mob sends Phillip to investigate the kidnapping of a connected businessman's daughter. As he races to track down the victim, he encounters rival mobsters who try to stop his investigation by any means necessary. What are his new employers hiding that they will kill to protect? 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

Volume 4, Issue 4 - August, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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 gangland murder sets two teens on a lifelong path toward tragedy, as one becomes a mayoral candidate and the other a cheap hood. A diminutive French aristocrat turns to crime to buy nice things for the dancer he loves. A stolen shrub proves to be a dishonest banker's undoing. Diana and the Dwarf; The Shadow of Dice Canale; The Shovel at Twilight; Plenty for Three; Just Like a Swan; The Plow and the Pen; The Hound from Abroad. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Drucker. Pre-Code crime comics from Timor, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. Mike Danger learns an old flame is working a burlesque act with a gorilla, in a story possibly written by hardboiled detective author Mickey Spillane. Secret agent Steve Farrell has an adventure in Shanghai, back when the CIA was still called the OSS. The reader is invited to solve The Case of the Artists Model. Gorilla-and-girl cover by future MAD artist Mort Drucker. Mike Danger: Murder at the Burlesque; The Woman in the Room!; Sorry! Wrong Victim; Treachery Trap; Adventure With the O.S.S; The Case of the Artists Model. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.