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Gangsters Can't Win
Date | Number: v1 5 | Lang: English (en)
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PublicationOctober-November 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Crime
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesInside front cover; Sydnie Nathan Industrial Trust Building, Wilmington 7, Delaware. Earn premiums by selling double-edge razor blades.
 
Comic StoryDead Men Don't Drown (8 pages)
SynopsisThe night before a big yacht race, Paul Wayne was murdered. Inspector Dan Foster solved the case with evidence from a forged suicide note found on the body.
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Johnny Talbot; Betty Kenton; Bill Manley; Paul Wayne; Inspector Dan Foster
NotesSubtitled "How a Suicide Note Trapped its Author. Art ID per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Full name per Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Signed with S in a rounded square in the splash panel.
 
SynopsisJoe becomes a winner after taking the Jowett bodybuilding system.
CreditsLetters:?; typeset
ContentCharacters: George F. Jowett; Joe
NotesJowett Institute of Physical Culture, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York.
 
Comic StoryThe Mystery of the Disappearing Diamonds (7 pages)
SynopsisValuable diamonds and newly valuable gold mine stock are stolen from the safe of formerly wealthy widow, Mrs. Van Upgraff. Stepson Walter Van Upgraff is convicted of the crime, but Lieutenant Tim Allen exonerates him.
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Mrs. Van Upgraff; Brenda Van Upgraff [daughter]; Walter Van Upgraff [stepson]; Alice Flint [secretary]; "Pierre Ronsard" [fake artist]; Lieutenant Tim Allen
NotesSecond mention of mint juleps in the book. Pencil credit per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Frank Motler previously credited Al Cammarata. Splash panel is signed CAMY.
 
Comic StoryThe P.I. and.. the Clocks! (3 pages)
SynopsisPostal Inspector H. J. Morgan captures clock repairman/extortionist John Rogers based on a chipped 'M' on his typewriter.
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Inspector H. J. Morgan; James Harvey; Charles Rogers; Valerie Kirk; John Rogers
NotesIngels pencils per Frank Motler.
 
Text StoryShort Vacation (2 pages)
SynopsisPop Collins accidentally captures fugitive killer Moxie Markle, who is boarding at his house.
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Moxie Markle; Pop Collins
 
Comic StoryTrail of Terror (9 pages)
SynopsisEscaped killer Madden kidnaps Laura Timmins. Sky Sheriff Breeze finds them and captures Madden.
FeaturingSky Sheriff
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Tenny; Loop; Killer Madden; Breeze Lawson; Tim Timmins; Laura Timmins
 
Comic StoryBeauty and the Book (8 pages)
SynopsisA rare book containing a valuable map, donated by Clarence Barkey, is stolen from the library. Inspector Moore deduces that shady businessman Eddie Calvin's secretary, Corky Tobin, is the crook.
CreditsScript: Bud Willard (signed)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Inspector Moore; Mr. Perkins; Eddie Calvin; Richard Barnell; Corky Tobin; Clarence Barkley
NotesSubtitled "How Did Murder Trap a Book Lover?"
 
Comic StoryThe Mystery of the Speaking Alibi (2 pages)
SynopsisZorra dies during an emergency operation by her brother. Her husband Veno kills the doctor and tries to make it look like a suicide.
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Veno the Ventriloquist; Zorra [his wife and assistant]; Doctor [Zorra's brother]
NotesUnknown artist identified as "Puppetface" per Jim Vadeboncoeur via Steven Rowe.
 
Comic StoryJailbreak (6 pages)
SynopsisSix murderers escape from prison. Three are captured by an old farm couple, two spotted by police while lighting a cigarette in a trailer, one by allowing a woman to call a doctor for her sick baby.
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Warden John Crane; Trimble; Grant; Selby; Mac; Pete; Tom Black [escaped prisoners]
NotesPencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesAd for flexible shaft tools. Foredom Electric Co., 27 Park Place, New York.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesAd for Protam diet plan. Associated Nutrition Products, Inc., 150 Nassau Street, New York.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesTriolette from Wilco Co. Back cover.
 
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