(April 1948)
St. John,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- St. John Publishing Co.
- Editing
- ?
The Case of the Sinister Scent
A True Crime Story / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Bert Phillips
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Sequence on inside front and inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Crime on the Run! / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The killers played a dangerous game...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Sheriff Percy Way
- Reprints
-
in Authentic Police Cases (Publications Services Limited, 1948 series) #1 ([circa May 1948])
-
[no title indexed]
Manhunters, Guardians of the Law / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gus Ricca
- Inks
- Gus Ricca
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Would psychiatry have spared...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Irving Carl Chapman
- Synopsis
- A road builder turns into a desperate criminal.
- Reprints
- in Authentic Police Cases (Publications Services Limited, 1948 series) #1 ([circa May 1948])
-
Indexer Notes
The broad faces are identical to his credited Jim Dolan stories in Slam Bang Comics, and the sample page from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Johnny Rebel / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heartless souls jeapordize...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Johnny Rebel; Billy Worth; Mr. Worth; Mr. Dennison
- Synopsis
- German saboteurs blow up a dam near the Worth estate.
- Reprints
-
from Yankee Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1941 series) #4 (March 1942) - in Authentic Police Cases (Publications Services Limited, 1948 series) #1 ([circa May 1948])
-
Indexer Notes
Fujitani is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is identical to his signed stories from this period of time, like "The Flying Dutchman" story in Air Fighters Comics v1 #2 (Hillman 1942).
[no title indexed]
Lady Satan / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A strange, mysterious woman...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Lady Satan; General Schultz
- Synopsis
- Lady Satan vows to destroy the evil forces that killed her fiancee in a bombing raid on the ship taking them to New York.
- Reprints
- from Dynamic Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1941 series) #2 (December 1941)
- in Authentic Police Cases (Publications Services Limited, 1948 series) #1 ([circa May 1948])
-
Indexer Notes
Tuska is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the tall figures with small heads, and the faces in profile are his work.
[no title indexed]
Crime on the Run! / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How could the police probe...
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in Authentic Police Cases (Publications Services Limited, 1948 series) #1 ([circa May 1948])
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
The Case of the Sinister Scent
A True Crime Story -
2.
["The killers played a dangerous game..."]
Crime on the Run! -
3.
["Would psychiatry have spared..."]
Manhunters, Guardians of the Law -
4.
["Heartless souls jeapordize..."]
Johnny Rebel -
5.
["A strange, mysterious woman..."]
Lady Satan -
6.
["How could the police probe..."]
Crime on the Run!
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- Lou Mougin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Len Wolinsky
- Jochen G.
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