([July] 1950)
Archie,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1950-07-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in U. S. A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Sam Hill Private Eye / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's a dead man in here -- and there are the two who killed him! Get 'em!
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill
The Cutie Killer Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye / comic story / 9.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yeah! I'm Sam Hill, ex Ivy League halfback.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill; Roxanna; Barbara Berkley; Rick Marks; Larry Berkley; Mike
- Synopsis
- Sam is hired to find dirt on a woman's husband, but instead finds him dead.
- Reprints
in The Double Trouble Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Think you'd like the job of casing the love-life of a babe that's built like a goddess and pitches woo like a she-devil?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill; Gilda Graham; Prudence Meek; Tony Romano; Roxanna
- Synopsis
- Prudence hires Sam to trail her sister and report on her activities.
- Reprints
Time To Kill
Sam Hill Private Eye / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ? [as Sam Hill]
- Pencils
- Harry Lucey
- Inks
- Harry Lucey
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- She wore clothes like they were painted on, and her lips were red cherries in the middle of a snowball.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill; June Prescott
- Synopsis
- Sam is hired by a woman to get her jewels from her husband, but Sam finds him dead.
Indexer Notes
Art previously credited to Harry Sahle, but it matches Lucey's work elsewhere in the issue and Sahle left MLJ/Archie in 1945.
Tangle Wits With a Killer!
Sam Hill Private Eye / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Think you'd make a good private eye, brother?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill; Adam Pierce; Miriam; Larry
- Synopsis
- Sam is hired to protect a woman from her husband.
Indexer Notes
The reader is asked to see if they can solve the crime. Art previously credited to Harry Sahle, but it matches Lucey's work elsewhere in the issue and Sahle left MLJ/Archie in 1945.
The Mad Money Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye / comic story / 7.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One lesson I've learned well is to kick a client in the teeth if he tries to offer me...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sam Hill; Decker; Alex Brock; Loretta Banks; Roxanna; Reeves
- Synopsis
- Sam recieves half of a thousand dollar bill to come solve a case.
Indexer Notes
Art previously credited to Harry Sahle, but it matches Lucey's work elsewhere in the issue and Sahle left MLJ/Archie in 1945.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["There's a dead man in here -- and there are the two who killed him! Get 'em!"]
Sam Hill Private Eye -
1.
["Kill these hair-destroying germs with Ward's formula"]
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2.
The Cutie Killer Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye -
3.
["Do me a favor, chum..."]
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4.
The Double Trouble Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye -
5.
Time To Kill
Sam Hill Private Eye -
6.
Tangle Wits With a Killer!
Sam Hill Private Eye -
7.
The Mad Money Caper
Sam Hill Private Eye -
8.
["The magazine that's got everything!"]
Dover Boys -
9.
["Reduce keep slim at home with relaxing, soothing massage!"]
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10.
["Have a slimmer youthful feminine appearance instantly!"]
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11.
["Send today fun for all!!!"]
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12.
Jim and Betty Find a New "Treasure"
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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