Crime Detective Comics comic books issue 12

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Mike Suchorsky and Bill Ely. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. In 1700s England, a woman is convinced that her son-in-law is a highwayman, and tries to get her disbelieving daughter to look in his mysterious sack. Little-known facts and trivia from the history of crime and detection. A cheap hood in 1925 robs a bank to buy a new car, never dreaming the cops will connect the two actions. The Sack from London; New Face on the Rock; Train from the West; This and That of Crime!; Green Rainbow; Nabbed; Joey's Glass Chariot. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Mort Lawrence, George Roussos, E. J. Smalle, Al McWilliams and Jules Steiner. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. An American crook plots to steal a British gold shipment, but his cohort's obsession with mice threatens to ruin the caper.A French con man swindles a courier out of a fortune in jewels, in a story with art possibly by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. Escaped convicts on the run encounter a farmer who doesn't scare easily. English Mice; Standard Time; The Case of Truck 107; The Brother; Bitter Sweets; The Innocents; Done in Oil; Paid in Full. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.