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| Publication | August-September 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Comic Story | Suicide on Sound Stage Seven (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A number of suspects had a motive for killing Rita and making it look like a suicide. |
| Featuring | Ma Barton |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Detective-mystery | Characters: Ma Barton; Chief Cavanaugh; Ron castle; Evelyn; Rita; Jake Schneider; John Hays; Leslie Mitchell |
| Notes | Cover story. |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Murder in the Penthouse (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Three men are suspected of writing threatening letters and one of them is murdered. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Detective-mystery | Characters: Jane Hunt; Martha; Vic Corson; Rex Hergert; Tim Farrell |
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| Comic Story | Lefty Schwartz (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A true crime story based on the rise and fall of gangster Dutch Schultz. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Lefty Schwartz [Robert Rittenhauer]; Giuseppi Donato; Ernie Kinney; Johnny Craig; Charlotte; Tommy Fay; Chuck Stein |
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| Text Story | The Ghost of Mrs. Hicks (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man on his death bed blames himself for the death of his wife. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Doc Morris; Mike Eddy; Jimmy Woods; John Hicks; Lucy Hicks |
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| Comic Story | One Eye's Gang (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gangster plans to rob bookmakers in Chicago during a 1945 crime spree. |
| Credits | Pencils: Tex Blaisdell | Inks: Tex Blaisdell |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: One Eye; Bill; Donkey Stiles; Kitty; Whitey; Big Boy; Turk; Mushmouth Ryan; Mike Reale; Frank |
| Notes | Indexer Bill Devine credits Philip "Tex" Blaisdell by noting the initials "PB" on a belt buckle on page one and again on a car emblem on the last page. On page 5 appears "Blaisdell" on a building sign in the background. |
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| Comic Story | Death Holds the Joker (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An upstanding family man leads a dual life as a bank robber. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Edward Starr Frost; Peggy Frost; Tom; Warren Frost; Irene; John Miles |
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| Comic Story | Frankie the Pug (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A cold blooded killer pulls off robberies and leaves no witnesses. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Frankie the Pug [Francisco Tomasetta]; Eddie Vail; Harry Unger; Tomasco Grecca; Chuck Lewis; Lix Oronsky; Jesley Jackson; Homer Ingram; Paolo Iannacome; Frank Caccace |
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