Grade | VG- 3.5 |
Year | 1952 |
Publisher | Law and Order Magazines |
This is a low grade item. It will be complete and readable, but will show significant wear. Allowed defects for this grade include: spine roll, a moderate amount of staining or water damage, writing or other marks on the cover, up to one inch spine splits or other tears, a cover or centerfold that is detached at one staple, discoloration due to oxidation, and a minor piece or pieces missing. An item could be assigned this grade due to either an accumulation of minor/moderate defects or one or two major defects.
Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Stan Asch. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After poverty-stricken cabbie Malone foils a cab robbery, he decides to take the crook's gun and do some robbing of his own. Mob enforcer Johnnie Bacon doesn't know what to do when a business won't pay protection money, so his boss shows him. Two women work out a scheme to pick up and rob random men, but one night they pick up the wrong guy. Minute Clues; A Day for Homicide; Death Was His Business; He Wanted to Be a Detective; Murder for Nothing; The Gun; Crime from Within. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lawbreakers Suspense Stories (1953 Charlton) #10. 32 pages, Full Color.
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