Dragnet
#4
([1954] ?)
- Price
- 9d [0-0-9 AUP]
- Pages
- 28
- On-sale Date
- 1954 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Invincible Press
- Brand
- An Invincible Comic
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To: Local and all points, wanted for interrogation connection homicide Los Angeles approx June, 22, David Koster, WMA, 32 yrs., 5 ft, 8 1/2 in.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
Indexer Notes
This cover promotes the first story in this issue, although only the text (not the image) relates to the story.
[no title indexed]
Dragnet / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Robinson
- Pencils
- Bill Ziegler (signed as Zig) ([as Ziegler] (signed))
- Inks
- Bill Ziegler (signed as Zig) ([as Ziegler] (signed))
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was Thursday, July 16th. It was warm in the city.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Joe Friday; Frank Smith; Captain Bert James; Mr. Draper; Mrs. Gates; Thelma Gates; David Koster
- Synopsis
- After Mrs. Gates, her daughter Thelma and tenant David Koster go missing with all the property in their rented home, police learn the three were always arguing and discover Mrs. Gates body buried under the driveway. When the police find Thelma, she is married to David, but he has abandoned her. She is shocked to discover her mother is dead and, with her help the police find David.
- Reprints
- from Dragnet daily (LA Mirror Syndicate) 1953-10-19 - 1953-12-05
Indexer Notes
These strips include date codes from '10-19' to '12-5'. As Bill Ziegler signed strips from 9 March 1953 to 9 January 1954, this story must be from late 1953. (Artist information from http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2007/09/obscurity-of-day-dragnet.html.)
The strip for 2 November appears to have been censored. Friday asks how Mrs. Gates was killed and most of the following speech bubble is blank after 'Blow on the back of her head…' There is a similar partially blank speech bubble on the strip for 11 November that describes a fight between Thelma's husband and mother. Notably, this series was banned by the Queensland Literature Board of Review from 28 August 1954.
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Dragnet / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Robinson
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was Thursday, April 4th. It was warm in the city.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Joe Friday; Frank Smith; Captain Nelson; Arthur McElroy; Ralph J Lansing; Crawford; Tom August Thatcher; Alfred Lowery
- Synopsis
- Arthur McElroy confesses to being part of a scam to create phony car registration slips and he sets up the boss for the police. Friday loses the man when his vehicle is in a car crash. Investigations uncover stolen cars and gang members, but not the boss. Finally, an all points bulletin finds the owner of the garage storing the stolen cars.
- Reprints
- from Dragnet daily (LA Mirror Syndicate) 1954-11-01 - 1955-02-20
Indexer Notes
Mel Keefer drew Dragnet from 10 January 1954 to the end of the strip on 21 May 1955, dating this story to 1954.
[no title indexed]
Dragnet / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Robinson
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was Wednesday, June 4. It was warm in the city.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Joe Friday; Frank Smith; Captain Carl Shy: Charles Lowell; Roxy Lucarelli; Jimmie Hendricks; Henry McLain; Al Gayton (on phone); the boss
- Synopsis
- A young drug user is picked up for assault and robbery, and informs on a narcotics ring. Friday goes undercover and learns of an overnight shipment of heroin. he is initially believed to be an out-of-town dealer, but the boss realises he's a cop and orders his murder, just as the squad arrives. The boss brags the police won't find anything, but one of his gang talks.
- Reprints
- from Dragnet daily (LA Mirror Syndicate) 1954-02-22 - 1955-04-10
Indexer Notes
Mel Keefer drew Dragnet from 11 January 1954 to the end of the strip on 21 May 1955, dating this story to 1954. These strips follow directly on from the previous story in this issue.
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["To: Local and all points, wanted for interrogation connection homicide Los Angeles approx June, 22, David Koster, WMA, 32 yrs., 5 ft, 8 1/2 in."]
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