Pay-Off comic books issue 4
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Issue #4
Published Feb 1949 by D.S. Publishing.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 Bob Jenney. Stories and art by Bob Jenney and Red Holmdale. Like many of DS Publishing's crime comics, Pay-Off transformed slowly from violent pre-Code gangster stories to milder mysteries featuring heroic detectives. Insurance investigator Johnny Dickens is called in after $1 million in jewels is stolen from a woman and replaced with fakes. A would-be burglar learns the secret past of the old dark Cobb House from its eccentric owner. WWI-era sailors encounter a modern version of the legendary Lorelei that lured the unwary to watery graves. The Lady and the Jewels; High Stakes; Murder and Make-Up; The Unhappy Millionaire; The Jinx; The Phantom Sloop. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
