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| Top left panel in page 22 of this upload was featured in SOTI with caption: "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."
Wertham also misquotes the text piece "Lessons in larceny" as "Lessons for larceny" |
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| Publication | June 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
| Notes | Cardy is credited on covers on this series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. A small signature on the nearest building. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Cardy as artist here. The signature looks like an underlined Vic or NC. |
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| Cover | Crime Mystery of the Month |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | Cardy is credited on covers on this series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. A small signature on the nearest building. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Cardy as artist here. The signature looks like an underlined Vic or NC. |
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| Featuring | Manhunters - Guardians of the Law |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Synopsis | Scoop is uncovering a full fledged war in the making between the United States and Mexico. |
| Featuring | Scoop Daily |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Scoop Daily (American correspondent); Mark Quay (special ambassador); Winnie (Mark's niece) |
| Notes | The faces with special hard set mouth in profile, the man with glasses, sharp eyes and the eyebrows of the females are all identical to Cavallo's signed story in Wings Comics #68. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has "Tuska ? Page 1", but only the two faces of the bad guys resemble him, the face of the girl is like Cavallo and the rest of story. |
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| Comic Story | Murderer! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man is killed for not paying his gambling debts. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lucky Coyne (the World's star reporter) |
| Notes | Art much in common with the Scoop Daily story. Compare the sharp eyes and eyebrows and hard bitten mouth, and also the face of the ladies. It could be Cavallo, but a bit sharper inklines here. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The White Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mysterious deaths of society women, all by the draining of their bodies of blood, prompts the Veiled Avenger to pose as a wealthy society dame in order to lure the perpetrators out of hiding. |
| Featuring | Veiled Avenger |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Veiled Avenger [Ginny Spears][poses as Cornelia Velvet] (the DA's secretary); Skipper (friend of Ginny Spears); Darlene Riker (death); J. A. Rockweilder (President of the Great Central Railroad); Dr. North; the District Attorney; Abner Gatthold (villain, death); Blasto (villain, death); Krigger (villain, death); Claude (villain, death) |
| Notes | Broad male faces looking a bit "well fed" are signs of Ricca. The only signed artwork by him are some covers that are a little different from all the storíes credited to him, but Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has him on this one. |
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| Text Story | Lessons in Larceny (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Synopsis | A murdered lady found in a runaway car. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lucky Coyne (star reporter for The World); Kitty (reporter); Flora Leeds (murdered singer); Karl Hartman |
| Notes | Some faces with sharp eyes and long eyebrows are very similar to Cavallo's signed story in Wings Comics #69. |
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