(February 1952)
- Volume:
- 5
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 44
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Headline Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Standard Golden Age U.S; Later Standard Silver Age U.S.; Full Color; Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched; was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Adapted from true police and FBI cases.
Alien Blackmail Ring!
comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Marvin Stein (signed)
- Inks:
- Marvin Stein (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Pete Webster (narrator, cowardly owner of a shark-fishing boat); John Cropper (deported racket boss and killer)
The Outcast!
comic story / 5.67 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Charles Nicholas ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Teddy Zinker (snitch, outcast)
Extra! Extra!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- John Lindstrom
Indexer Notes
House ad for Headline Comics
Merchant of Death!
comic story / 6.67 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Ira Capper (narrator, hit-man)
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western-frontier
- Characters:
- American Eagle
Indexer Notes
House ad for Prize Western
Staged Alibi
True Detective Spotlight Mystery / text story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Indexer Notes
House ad for Mickey Finn Comics
[no title indexed]
Closeups / text article / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
Indexer Notes
True crime anecdotes
Fall Guy!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mort Meskin
- Inks:
- Mort Meskin ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Joey Arnold (convicted thief who served his time but never surrendered the loot)
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
[Alien Blackmail Ring]
-
1.
Alien Blackmail Ring!
-
2.
The Outcast!
-
3.
Extra! Extra!
-
4.
Merchant of Death!
-
5.
[no title indexed]
-
6.
Staged Alibi
True Detective Spotlight Mystery -
7.
[no title indexed]
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Closeups -
9.
Fall Guy!
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- Katie
- Len Wolinsky
- James Ludwig
- Nick Caputo
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- Gene Reed
- Lou Mougin
- Jim Walls
- Len Wolinsky
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