(April 1951)

Orbit-Wanted, 1947 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Toytown Publications Inc.
Editing
?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores (signed)
Inks
Syd Shores
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime

Indexer Notes

Newsstand rack on cover has copies of "Wanted", "Wild Bill Pecos" and "Love Diary". All are Toytown publications.

Cover Thumbnail for Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #36
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Owney Mattern King of the Numbers (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Mort Leav (signed)
Inks
Bob Rogers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.

Mobster's Mouthpiece (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mort Lawrence (signed)
Inks
Mort Lawrence
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime

Benard Lee Thomas (Table of Contents: 3)

Wanted by the Police / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rafael Astarita
Inks
Rafael Astarita
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Bernard Lee Thomas

Indexer Notes

Art identical to Astarita's signed stories in Real Life Comics (Pines, 1941 series) #53 and Intimate Confessions (Avon, 1951 series) #5. Notice eyes, lower lip and grinning mouth.

The Fall Guy Murder Case (Table of Contents: 4)

Crime Lab (Loot and Doc) / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Chuck Miller (signed)
Inks
Chuck Miller
Colors
?
Letters
?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Strictly Undercover / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

What Happened to Dorothy Arnold? (Table of Contents: 6)

Great Unsolved Mysteries / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
crime
Keywords
contest

The Invisible Gas (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Woolfolk's payment book, as transcribed by Martin O'Hearn.

William Kenneth Wagner (Table of Contents: 8)

Wanted by the Police / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rafael Astarita
Inks
Rafael Astarita
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction
Characters
William Kenneth Wagner

Indexer Notes

Same artist as in the first Wanted story in this issue.

Passport to Nowhere (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Owney Mattern King of the Numbers
  3. 2. Mobster's Mouthpiece
  4. 3. Benard Lee Thomas
    Wanted by the Police
  5. 4. The Fall Guy Murder Case
    Crime Lab (Loot and Doc)
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Strictly Undercover
  7. 6. What Happened to Dorothy Arnold?
    Great Unsolved Mysteries
  8. 7. The Invisible Gas
  9. 8. William Kenneth Wagner
    Wanted by the Police
  10. 9. Passport to Nowhere
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  • Steinar Ådland
  • Peter Croome
  • Edgar Loftin
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Smith
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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