(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
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Killer at Large!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (see notes); Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (see notes); Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Colors
- Renaldo Epworth (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
Indexer Notes
Cover painting is from Avon Murder Mystery #45 (1947) Edgar Wallace's On The Spot.
The top two heads on the left side of the cover painting are drawn by Joe Kubert.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Everett Kinstler (signed)
- Inks
- Everett Kinstler (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The empire of crime...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Louie Gruber; Peter Allen' "Leech" McCoy; Mae Crandall
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover. As introduction to the stories in this issue.
Killer at Large
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This story is about one of the most hardened women criminals...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Mae Crandall; Jake Crandall; Pete Crandall; Mary Crandall
- Reprints
Louie Gruber...Czar of the Underworld!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mort Lawrence (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Lawrence (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sty away from that car, Gruber...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Louie Gruber; Gus Watson; Morelli
- Reprints
in The Unseen Murderer!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Howard Larsen (signed as
LARSEN) - Inks
- Howard Larsen (signed as LARSEN)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Detective Peter Allen crumpled and fell...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Detective Peter Allen; Aunt Agatha; Tom
- Reprints
Death Danced the Samba!
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cipriano Castillo was a tall man...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Cipriano Castillo; Detective B. Porter; Detective W.F. McCurry; Walgreen; Mary Phillips; Joe Martinez
- Reprints
Mystery of the Headless Corpse!
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The pink-cheeked youngster...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Aurelio Marco Tarquinio; Captain Adelbert Plantholt; Sergeant Otis Bradley; Evelyn Rice
- Reprints
Leech McCoy the Incendiary Killer!
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An all around rat, thief, arsonist and killer...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Leech McCoy; Louie Gasso
- Reprints
-
in Sensational Police Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[1] (1952) - in The Crime Machine (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971) which is reprinted
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Killer at Large!
-
1.
["The empire of crime..."]
-
2.
Killer at Large
-
3.
Louie Gruber...Czar of the Underworld!
-
4.
The Unseen Murderer!
-
5.
Death Danced the Samba!
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6.
Mystery of the Headless Corpse!
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7.
Leech McCoy the Incendiary Killer!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Merlin Haas
- Dan Kurdilla
- Edgar Loftin
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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