Underworld (1948 D.S. Pub.) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Mar 1948 by D.S. Publishing.- Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Walter T. Johnson, Frank Bolle and Leonard Starr. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and the law from DS Publishing. Bill Batlen may be a crook and a killer, but his younger brother Andy wants to be just like him. Eddie Bendix may look like a kid, but he's a deadly menace. Marge Morrow escapes from prison, in a story with some Chester Gould-style bad-girl art. Extra-violent cover at least gives the law the upper hand, unlike some other covers of the crime-comics era. The Mad Dog Murderers; The Baby-Face Killer; Killers Inc.; Crime Curtain; The Female Menace; Murder for Millions. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #4
Published Sep 1948 by D.S. Publishing.- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
$110.00
View scan- INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, affects art and story.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Ann Brewster, Louis Schroeder, Al Camy and Al McWilliams. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and the law from DS Publishing. Richard and Laurence may be thieves and holdup men, but they feel that's no reason to be rude, in a story by early female comics artist Ann Brewster. Policewoman Jean Adams goes undercover to trap con artists with a fortune-telling swindle, in an early action-girl story. Jose Luis Valera Obispo is either a Spanish lord, or the killer called Spanish John - or possibly both - in an early story by future EC legend Graham Ingels. The Murder Spree; Terror at the Waterfront!; Mystery of the Fired Shot; The Ghost Racket; Gorgeous Gal - With Gun!; The Beer Baron Murder; The Polite Burglars; Butch McGinty; Spanish John: The Caballero Killer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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