(June 1949)
Ace Magazines,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Junior Books Inc.
- Brand
-
An Ace Magazine
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
-
in Crime Must Pay the Penalty! (Ace International, 1948 ? series) #8 (September 1949)
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The Human Bomb
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Anton Kordo
- Synopsis
- This is the tale of Anton Kordo, a "true split personality," who vacillated between regular family man and canny thief whose signature was that he carried a vial of nitroglycerin in his pocket so the police were afraid to take him down for fear of being blown up.
Indexer Notes
This is the "transvestite" story as identified in Overstreet and consists of a three panel scene where Kordo dresses up as a woman to escape capture.
Art ID by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Blades of Doom!
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime; western-frontier
- Characters
- Jack the Ripper [Western villain]
- Synopsis
- This is the story of a notorious outlaw who ran crooked gambling games and used two throwing knives instead of guns.
- Reprints
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #325 - Jack the Ripper ([November] 2017)
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Ross Barton
- Synopsis
- The tale of a loud mouthed mechanic who went on a crime spree to prove he was a better bad guy than Dillinger.
Indexer Notes
Art ID by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Human Bomb
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2.
Blades of Doom!
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3.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
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4.
The Death Signal
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5.
The Ghoulish Gambler
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6.
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- Henry Andrews
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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