(March 1951)

Charlton, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Law and Order Magazines Inc.
Editing
Charles J. Levy; Charles Santangelo

Issue Notes

editors listed in indicia

Nobody Loves a Gunman (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Art Gates (signed)
Inks
Art Gates (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime

How to be an Amateur Detective (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Ken Brickley (credited)
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Reprints

Indexer Notes

two who-dunnit crime puzzles printed in black and white on inside front cover.

Machine Gun George Grogan (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Characters
George 'Machine Gun' Grogan; Mrs. Grogan (his wife)
Synopsis
George Grogan is just a cheap hood, but his wife has ambitions and pushes him to greater and greater crimes, until a kidnapping ploy goes wrong for the both of them.

Nobody Trusts a Gunman!! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Art Gates (signed)
Inks
Art Gates (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Synopsis
A cop is murdered in the process of stopping a robbery, but wounds the perpetrator before he dies. A rookie cop gets called to go undercover to infiltrate the mob and find the killer.

Diabolical Pipeline (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Synopsis
Two Texas shysters have planned a deal to swindle money from investors, but the daughter of one of the men gets caught in a complicated web of love and jealousy, and soon, a murder takes place to keep the scheme a secret.

Uncertain of Death (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Justin D. Triem
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime

Murder Plays the Big Show (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime

The Big Plane Hi-Jack (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Synopsis
An elaborate scheme is set in motion to smuggle stolen nuclear material to a Latin American country who hopes to develop the bomb.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

How Clever Are You? / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
Ken Brickley; Ken Brickley
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
One fine Summer morning, Mr. Sourgrass and his wife set out...
Feature Logo
How Clever Are You?
Genre
crime; detective-mystery
Reprints

Indexer Notes

two who-dunnit crime puzzles printed in black & white on inside back cover.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Nobody Loves a Gunman
  2. 1. How to be an Amateur Detective
  3. 2. Machine Gun George Grogan
  4. 3. Nobody Trusts a Gunman!!
  5. 4. Diabolical Pipeline
  6. 5. Uncertain of Death
  7. 6. Murder Plays the Big Show
  8. 7. The Big Plane Hi-Jack
  9. 8. ["One fine Summer morning, Mr. Sourgrass and his wife set out..."]
    How Clever Are You?
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony Oliva
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Daniel Thingvold