Crime Detective Comics
#v3#7
(March-April 1953)
Hillman,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
A Hillman Publication
- Editing
- Edward Cronin
The Jersey Job
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Dad...I've got good news!
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Johnny Neill; Max Neill
- Synopsis
- Johnny Neill gets a good job at Condor Labs and tells his father, who is suitably proud. Max Neill is an editor for a newspaper, but also an enemy agent, who is ordered to accompany several others and sabotage Condor Labs. Rather than kill his son, he causes the car the spies are traveling in to crash and all are killed.
500 Carat Nothing
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Senor Bobo - your pardon...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Enrico Cardena
- Synopsis
- Latin thief Enrico Cardena is contemptuous of Americans who leave a huge precious gem on display in a store window. He smashes the glass and reaches in, only to find the jewel case is empty. His fellow criminals don't believe his story and execute him. The following morning at the crime scene the manager explains that their stock of gems is actually in the cellar and it is the reflection on the glass case in the window display which creates an illusion.
The Passing of Joseph Camp
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Most gangland partnerships are short...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- "Books"; Joseph Camp; Alf
The Old Badge
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When Miriam Prentis emerged from the elevator...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Miriam Prentis; Detective Tom Gillam; Mrs. Boardman
The Rolling Handcuffs
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Marty Burke is a truck driver in hard luck...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Marty Burke; Stafford; Timmins
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["...There He Goes!!"]
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1.
The Jersey Job
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2.
500 Carat Nothing
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3.
The Passing of Joseph Camp
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4.
The Old Badge
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5.
The Rolling Handcuffs
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6.
The Sparrow Makes Good
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7.
Thread to a Trigger
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Michael Hoskin
- Dan Kocher
- Donald Dale Milne
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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