(August 1951)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avon Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
An Avon Publication
- Editing
- Sol Cohen (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (inset faces); Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (inset faces); Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Colors
- Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
Indexer Notes
Painted art is taken from Murder Mystery Monthly #46 (1947), entitled “The Green Ice Murders” by Raoul Whitfield.
Art credit from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948.
Keith Chandler : The four inset faces are by Wood.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Presenting a new form of reader participation...
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Preview of the issue's stories.
- Reprints
-
in Buried Treasure (Pure Imagination, 1986 series) #1 (Spring 1986)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
This is... The Lineup!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Moe Marcus (signed as Marcus)
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed as Rocke)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Squint, no! Don't shoot!
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Andy 'Squint' Sheridan; Special Agent Potter; Dutch Schultz
Killer!
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Although he clothed his black deeds in innocence...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Wally Marvin (killer); Sally; Joe Packard' Officer Lonergan; Detective Hall
Indexer Notes
Claims to be 'based on a true story'.
Ger Apeldoorn suggests Roussos as inker, and Keith Chandler sees Roussos on pencils also.
Irene Schroeder
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In three weeks of shooting, robbing, and terrori\zing...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Irene Schroeder [the Keystone Hellcat]; Glen Dague (accomplice); Welles
Greek-fire to Flame-thrower
Truth not Fancy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Greek-fire was composed of sulphue, naphtha and quicklime.
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Reprints
- from The Saint (Avon, 1947 series) #5 (1949)
- in The Crime Machine (Skywald, 1971 series) #1 (February 1971) which is reprinted
-
The Diamond of Death
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A priceless gem...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Michael Strong (private eye); Princess Iona of Sumaria [el Kara]; Pat
- Reprints
- from The Saint (Avon, 1947 series) #5 (1949)
-
Indexer Notes
Reworked Saint story with "Simon Templar" changed to "Michael Strong".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
["Presenting a new form of reader participation..."]
-
2.
This is... The Lineup!
-
3.
Killer!
-
4.
Irene Schroeder
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5.
Greek-fire to Flame-thrower
Truth not Fancy -
6.
The Diamond of Death
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Keith Chandler
- Web Ed
- Michael Hoskin
- Daniel Martinez
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Tim Tjarks
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Len Wolinsky
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