True Crime Comics
#v1#3
(July-August 1948)
Magazine Village,
1947 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1948-06-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Village, Inc.
- Editing
- Jack Cole
Issue Notes
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #7 (May 1987) [cover illustration]
-
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #3 (September 1986) which is reprinted
- in Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #7 (May 1987) [cover illustration]
- in Jack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits (Chronicle Books, 2001 series) (August 2001)
- in Crime Comics Confidential (IDW, 2021 series) (July 2021)
-
Meet the Split Benny Dickson
comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Stella Dickson (death); Benny Dickson (death)
- Reprints
-
in True Crime Comics (Alval Publishers, 1948 series) #5 (January-February 1949) [modified?] - in Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #4 (November 1986)
- in 3-D True Crime (3-D Zone, 1992 series) (1992) [reprint in 3-D]
-
in James Bond (Semic, 1979 series) #5/1993 (uke 31 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story.
[Adolph Berg]
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in True Crime Comics (Alval Publishers, 1948 series) #5 (January-February 1949) [modified?]
-
Joyce McAllister
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- crime
Indexer Notes
The final panel has a signature that appears to read 'AL KATRES;' it may be a pun on Alcatraz.
Checkwriters, Inc.
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- O. J. Peterson (of the U. S. Secret Service); Edwin Baird (as told to...)
- Colors
- ? (page and text colors)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
The Terror Reign of Boston's Black Spade
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in True Crime Comics (Alval Publishers, 1948 series) #5 (January-February 1949) [modified?]
-
Vengeance of the Mounted
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in True Crime Comics (Alval Publishers, 1948 series) #5 (January-February 1949) [modified]
- in Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #4 (November 1986)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Meet the Split Benny Dickson
-
2.
[Adolph Berg]
-
3.
Joyce McAllister
-
4.
Checkwriters, Inc.
-
5.
The Terror Reign of Boston's Black Spade
-
6.
The Adventures of Joe Bonomo The World's Strong Man
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7.
Vengeance of the Mounted
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Tony R. Rose
- Keith Chandler
- Dave Redmond
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
- Pat Conolly
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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