(April 1952)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Realistic Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
A Realistic Comic
- Editing
- Sol Cohen
Issue Notes
PRISON BREAK, April 1952 - Vol. 1, No.3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. Jos. Meyers, Pres., Sol Cohen, Editor and General Manager. Indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.
[Table of Contents]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tex Blaisdell (signed as Tex)
- Inks
- Tex Blaisdell (signed as Tex)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To get the life of luxury...
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover.
Killers on the Loose! Francine O'Connor -- "The Empress of Crime"
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tex Blaisdell (signed as Tex)
- Inks
- Tex Blaisdell (signed as Tex)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Most people think twice...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Francine O'Connor ["The Empress of Crime"]; Fred O'Connor; Art Farola (roustabout)
- Synopsis
- "Francine O'Connor used her cunning brain and fantastic physical strength to drench the pages of crime with the misery and blood of her victims!" (from Table of Contents)
- Reprints
-
in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[1] (1952) - in The Crime Machine (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971) which is reprinted
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2395 - Skywald's Crime Machine ([July] 2019)
-
in Krimi Klassiker (ilovecomics, 2020 series) #7 - Der Tod kommt lachend! (2022)
-
Sonny Tehume, Machine-Gun Madman!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Goldfarb (signed as Goldfarb)
- Inks
- Bob Baer (signed as Baer)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Sonny Tehume; Mrs. Terhune; Dawson (butler); Mr. Terhune; Slugs Morelli
- Synopsis
- "He had money for women and liquor -- an inherited fortune! He did not have to prey upon his fellow man in order to exist. But this ruthless killer was a maniac who destroyed for pleasure!" (from Table of Contents)
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Machine-Gun Madman is in all lower case letters in the title.
Lina Foyle... Gunmoll!
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Red-headed Lena Foyle had visions of Jewels...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Lena Foyle; Pete Vello
- Synopsis
- "To get the life of luxury of which she had always dreamed, redheaded Lina Foyle and her trigger-happy boyfriend went on a spree of robbery and shooting that finally ended in --- murder!" (from Table of Contents)
- Reprints
Cleveland's Butcher of Death!
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From 1937 to 1939...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Lawrence "Pat" Lyons (private investigator); Sheriff Martin O'Donnell; Frank Dolezal
- Reprints
Two-Dollar Murder!
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mrs. Ted Grader stood on her porch...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Mrs. Ted Grader; Allen McCay; John McCay; Sheriff Roberts; Tony Johnson; Bob Redding
- Reprints
Death Comes Laughing
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Janet, look at this match burn!
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Detective-Sergeant Blake; Janice Greer; Dr. Emil Rolf; Eric Rolf [alias Nurse Katherine]; Peter Carter; Robert J. Greer
- Synopsis
- "Too many rich old men had died at the mysterious Dr. Rolf's mountain sanitorium! Beautiful Janice Greer found herself battling the weird menace of the house where 'Death Comes Laughing!'" (from Table of Contents)
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Killers on the Loose
-
1.
[Table of Contents]
-
2.
Killers on the Loose! Francine O'Connor -- "The Empress of Crime"
-
3.
Sonny Tehume, Machine-Gun Madman!
-
4.
Lina Foyle... Gunmoll!
-
5.
Cleveland's Butcher of Death!
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6.
Two-Dollar Murder!
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7.
Death Comes Laughing
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Pat Lang
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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