(August 1952)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- Bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- St. John Publishing Company
- Brand:
- St. John
- Editing:
- ?
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U. S.
- Paper Stock:
- Newsprint
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
[Hijack]
cover / 1 page
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Matt Baker
- Inks:
- Matt Baker
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Antonio Canale. The art doesn't match his interior story "Hijack". Looks more like Matt Baker's credited work on the covers of # 17 and #22. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also has Baker here.
Double Dynamite
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Big Ben Thompson (political leader); Jack Collins (Patrolman); Tom Purcell (Patrolman); Villains: Stanley Novack; Packy McGurn; Max Atwood
Indexer Notes
Story starts on the inside-front cover and concludes on the inside-back cover.
Hijack
comic story / 8 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Antonio Canale
- Inks:
- Antonio Canale
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Mac Jones (gang boss); Max; Blackie Roberts (gangster); Frank Carson (truck dispatcher)
- Synopsis:
- Since the start of the Korean fighting, all crime has increased.
Indexer Notes
Canale can be recognised by his faces with very movable lips, thin hands, folds in clothing and the special way of moving the legs. He is credited on these series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Canale on this story.
The Criminal's Law of Averages
comic story / 8 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ed Ashe
- Inks:
- Ed Ashe
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Longie Proctor (small-time hood who rose to the top)
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Ed Ashe on this story.
Murder Masks a Black Market
comic story / 7 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Inks:
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Bruno Marin (sinister black-marketeer, and murderer)
The Camouflage Killers
comic story / 4 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ed Ashe
- Inks:
- Ed Ashe
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Wayne Douglas (film director); Linda Dailey (screen star)
- Synopsis:
- A wave of hotel suite burglaries struck New York in the fall of 1951.
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Ashe here.
Everglades Manhunt
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ed Ashe
- Inks:
- Ed Ashe
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- crime
- Characters:
- Don; Charlie
- Synopsis:
- Luxury yachts cruising the Florida west coast jungle waterways were prey of a marauding trio of bandits boarding and robbing.
Indexer Notes
Same art as the other stories credited to Ashe by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Hijack]
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1.
Double Dynamite
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2.
Hijack
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3.
The Criminal's Law of Averages
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4.
Murder Masks a Black Market
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5.
The Camouflage Killers
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6.
Everglades Manhunt
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Alberto Becattini
- Steinar Ådland
- Len Wolinsky
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Tony R. Rose
- Len Wolinsky
- Peter Croome
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