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Date | Number: 8 | Lang: English (en)
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PublicationJune 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly
 
ContentGenre: Crime
 
Comic StoryA Tough Beat (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Joe Bryant (hero, honest cop); Kid Coy [Joe Bryant Jr] (hoodlum)
NotesStarr is credited on both pencil and ink on crime stories for St. John by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by his faces, with quite broad mouth. He had most of the Bantam Buckaroo stories for ACG.
 
Comic StoryDurable Mike Malloy (8 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Michael Malloy; Tony Marino; Joe Murphy; Harry Green; Frank Pasqua; Dan Kreisberg; Doctor Frank Manzella
 
Comic StoryThe Squealers (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Michael Malloy (alcoholic tramp); Eliot Graham (reporter); Captain Mike Farrow; Tony Benuiti; Joe Ashly (crook); Red Hogan (crook); Gus Hall (crook); Detective Willy Rose; Charlie Winters (pawnbroker); Detective Ed Worth
NotesNotes as for the first story.
 
Comic StoryKill-Crazy John Dillinger (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: John Dillinger; Melvin Purvis
NotesArt was originally credited to Louis Ravelli?, but faces with bushy eyebrows drawn with lines perpendicular is a sure sign of Olesen, as can best be seen on the last page. He did many western stories of The Hawk for St. John. He is also credited on crime stories for St. John by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
 
Comic StoryThe Dream Horse Winners (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Rick Fraser (horseplayer); Horace Fraser; Mr. Wickham (bank manager); Sleet Higgins (bookie); Handle (bookie); Pete Petrone (jockey)
NotesArt identification from Gary Watson, July 2009.
 
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