Crime Detective Comics
#v2#2
(May-June 1950)
Hillman,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1950-03-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
A Hillman Publication
- Printer
- Printed in the United States of America
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (credited as Edward Cronin) (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1950, page 36, registration number B237702.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pssst, Benny - a cop!!
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Benny
- Reprints
-
in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #135 (September 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification confirmed by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Later redrawn for Streamline's Secret Missions #1 (1951).
The Bull Gets Wings
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- aviation; crime
- Characters
- Jesse Erskine; Bull Mason; Trent; Nick Sabin; George Moore; Mike Blaine; Callahan; Bruiser; Saunders; Knight
- Synopsis
- Bull Mason decides to use an airplane dropping bombs in his protection racket.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Lock of Hair
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Professor Zeigler; Dr. Willie Schmidt; Dr. Anna Kopf
- Synopsis
- In 1920's Vienna the police receive a hank of woman's hair and a note saying, "Stop me, fools... if you can. Ha! Ha!"
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Uses Leroy lettering.
The Man with the Firestick
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; crime; jungle
- Characters
- Dirk Nalon; Gree; Karengula; Hector Wayburn
- Synopsis
- In the Belgian Congo, Dirk Nalon kills natives convinced he'll never be caught.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Nickel Napoleon
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Swifty Ward; Frankie the Fence; Fingers Folsom; Dave the Dip; Gilt-Edge Gilroy; Collette
- Synopsis
- Swifty is in Monte Carlo to unload stolen bonds.
Ball Point Homer
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; crime
- Characters
- Hamilton S. Bullion; Homer Haskins; Gladys Simpson; Jerry; J. Drexel Simpson; Mamie Simpson; Bolton; Joe
- Synopsis
- Homer meets a sweet-talking girl who likes the finer things in life, so he starts taking advances on his bank job to buy them for her.
- Reprints
in Poetry on a Cash Basis
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Dan Cobalt; Merle Johnson; Mr. Rogers; Walter Crane; Mrs. Midston; Joe; Mike
- Synopsis
- A man is committing robberies and leaving taunting poems at the scenes of the crimes.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Pssst, Benny - a cop!!"]
-
1.
["Can you solve this crime?"]
Institute of Applied Science Books -
2.
The Bull Gets Wings
-
3.
The Lock of Hair
-
4.
The Man with the Firestick
-
5.
Nickel Napoleon
-
6.
Ball Point Homer
-
7.
["Amazing all-over rain-cover bargain U.S. gov't surplus"]
All-Over Rain-Cover -
8.
Poetry on a Cash Basis
-
9.
["Mail order guide"]
-
10.
Under the Robe
-
11.
["Hopalong Cassidy western steerhide belt"]
-
12.
["Which of these 2 one time weaklings paid only a few cents to become an "all-around" he-man at home?"]
Jowett Institute of Physical Training -
13.
["Bad skin?"]
Viderm Skin Products -
14.
["Reduce fat!"]
Kelpidine Chewing Gum [Candy]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Bill Devine
- Merlin Haas
- Dan Kocher
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Ramon Schenk
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