(June 1948)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Bi-Monthly
On-sale Date
1948-03-05
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Complete Photo Story Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee ? (editor)

Issue Notes

Information on this issue from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, 1948, p. 32, Copyright number: B124861.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Frank Giacoia ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Crimefighters (Marvel, 1948 series) #2
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Cover gallery

When Terror Came to Town! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2786
Genre
crime

Indexer Notes

Colan pencils per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:
http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/08/gene-colan-1926-2011-timel…

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Wanted by the F.B.I. / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime

He Matched Wits with Murder! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2734
Genre
crime
Characters
Alphonse Bertillon
Synopsis
This story features French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914). He is erroneously credited with the development of fingerprinting. Bertillon actually developed the identification system known as Anthropometry, which was discredited and replaced by fingerprinting.

Hero Worship (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
SL-2656
Genre
crime

No Date for Bill! (Table of Contents: 5)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

Ad for Secrets Behind the Comics by Stan Lee, published by Famous Enterprises, Inc.

No Room for Yellow Lawmen! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2558
Genre
western-frontier

Blue-Coat's Payoff! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Frank Giacoia ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2774
Genre
crime
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. When Terror Came to Town!
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Wanted by the F.B.I.
  4. 3. He Matched Wits with Murder!
  5. 4. Hero Worship
  6. 5. No Date for Bill!
  7. 6. No Room for Yellow Lawmen!
  8. 7. Blue-Coat's Payoff!
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