Guns Against Gangsters
#v1#1 [1]
(September-October 1948)
Novelty / Premium / Curtis,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- The Premium Group of Comics
- Editing
- Robert Wheeler (credited as Robert D. Wheeler) (editor, general manager); Mel Cummin (credited) (art director); Katharine Urban (credited) (story editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- L. B. Cole (signed)
- Inks
- L. B. Cole (signed)
- Colors
- L. B. Cole ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
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Fire at Will
letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
On the inside front cover. Letter from the editor and letters from readers of Young King Cole.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now how can your uncle be a jail warden...
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
2 single-panel gags.
[no title indexed]
Boitram the Boiglar / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Art Helfant (credited)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (credited)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Art Helfant
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Put 'em up.
- Genre
- humor
Two Bright Boys
True Lives of Crime / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
-
in Thrilling Crime Cases (Star Publications, 1950 series) #44 (April 1951)
-
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He says for ten cents he'll play Indian!!
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
4 single-panel gags.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Electric cookies! What kind are they??
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
4 single-panel gags.
Green Suit Murders
Gunmaster / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Gunmaster [Gregory Gayle]; Toni Gayle
- Reprints
- in Thrilling Crime Cases (Star Publications, 1950 series) #42 (October 1950)
-
Indexer Notes
Artist ID by Martin O'Hearn.
The Story behind the Italian Beretta
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Harry Lazarus
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- facts about the gun Beretta
The Introduction of the Shoulder Holster
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Harry Lazarus
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- facts about shoulder holsters
[no title indexed]
Crime Run-Down You Spot the Criminal / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tom Drake, a noted businessman, is found dead with a rifle bullet in his back.
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Inspector Cliff O'Day
- Synopsis
- Solve the crime given various clues
- Reprints
- in Crime Fighting Detective (Star Publications, 1950 series) #12 (September 1950)
-
in Crime-Busters (Horwitz, 1957 ? series) #1 (1957)
-
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ok, why does your cousin put bird seed...
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
8 single-panel gags.
[People at the Zoo]
Boitram the Boiglar / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Boitram
- Synopsis
- Boitram laughs as he compares people at the zoo to the animals in the cages until he meets a raccoon who looks like him.
Indexer Notes
On the inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Fire at Will
-
2.
Case of the Sacred Cobra
Toni Gayle -
3.
[no title indexed]
Kellogg's Krumbles -
4.
["Now how can your uncle be a jail warden..."]
-
5.
["Put 'em up."]
Boitram the Boiglar -
6.
Two Bright Boys
True Lives of Crime -
7.
["He says for ten cents he'll play Indian!!"]
-
8.
Masked Death
-
9.
["Electric cookies! What kind are they??"]
-
10.
Green Suit Murders
Gunmaster -
11.
The Story behind the Italian Beretta
-
12.
The Introduction of the Shoulder Holster
-
13.
["Tom Drake, a noted businessman, is found dead with a rifle bullet in his back."]
Crime Run-Down You Spot the Criminal -
14.
["Ok, why does your cousin put bird seed..."]
-
15.
[People at the Zoo]
Boitram the Boiglar -
16.
[no title indexed]
Schwinn Bicycles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Len Wolinsky
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