Gangsters Can't Win
#v1#4
(August-September 1948)
D.S. Publishing,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale date
- 1948
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- D.S. Publishing Company, Inc.
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- color cover
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
Suicide on Sound Stage Seven
Ma Barton / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Ma Barton; Chief Cavanaugh; Ron castle; Evelyn; Rita; Jake Schneider; John Hays; Leslie Mitchell
- Synopsis
- A number of suspects had a motive for killing Rita and making it look like a suicide.
Indexer Notes
Cover story.
Mystery of the Murder in the Penthouse
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jane Hunt; Martha; Vic Corson; Rex Hergert; Tim Farrell
- Synopsis
- Three men are suspected of writing threatening letters and one of them is murdered.
Lefty Schwartz
comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Lefty Schwartz [Robert Rittenhauer]; Giuseppi Donato; Ernie Kinney; Johnny Craig; Charlotte; Tommy Fay; Chuck Stein
- Synopsis
- A true crime story based on the rise and fall of gangster Dutch Schultz.
The Ghost of Mrs. Hicks
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Doc Morris; Mike Eddy; Jimmy Woods; John Hicks; Lucy Hicks
- Synopsis
- A man on his death bed blames himself for the death of his wife.
One Eye's Gang
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tex Blaisdell
- Inks
- Tex Blaisdell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- One Eye; Bill; Donkey Stiles; Kitty; Whitey; Big Boy; Turk; Mushmouth Ryan; Mike Reale; Frank
- Synopsis
- A gangster plans to rob bookmakers in Chicago during a 1945 crime spree.
Indexer Notes
Indexer Bill Devine credits Philip "Tex" Blaisdell by noting the initials "PB" on a belt buckle on page one and again on a car emblem on the last page. On page 5 appears "Blaisdell" on a building sign in the background.
Death Holds the Joker
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Edward Starr Frost; Peggy Frost; Tom; Warren Frost; Irene; John Miles
- Synopsis
- An upstanding family man leads a dual life as a bank robber.
Frankie the Pug
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Frankie the Pug [Francisco Tomasetta]; Eddie Vail; Harry Unger; Tomasco Grecca; Chuck Lewis; Lix Oronsky; Jesley Jackson; Homer Ingram; Paolo Iannacome; Frank Caccace
- Synopsis
- A cold blooded killer pulls off robberies and leaves no witnesses.
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Table of Contents
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0.
["It's supposed tolook like suicide"]
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1.
Suicide on Sound Stage Seven
Ma Barton -
2.
Mystery of the Murder in the Penthouse
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3.
Lefty Schwartz
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4.
The Ghost of Mrs. Hicks
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5.
One Eye's Gang
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6.
Death Holds the Joker
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7.
Frankie the Pug
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Peter Croome
- Bill Devine
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- John P. Selegue
- Peter Croome
- James Ludwig
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