| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bimonthly |
| Notes | Originally credited to Antonio Canale. The art doesn't match his interior story "Hijack". Looks more like Matt Baker's credited work on the covers of # 17 and #22. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also has Baker here. |
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| Cover | Hijack |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | Originally credited to Antonio Canale. The art doesn't match his interior story "Hijack". Looks more like Matt Baker's credited work on the covers of # 17 and #22. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also has Baker here. |
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| Text Story | Double Dynamite (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Big Ben Thompson (political leader); Jack Collins (patrolman); Tom Purcell (patrolman); Stanley Novack (villain); Packy McGurn (villain); Max Atwood (villain) |
| Notes | Story starts on the inside-front cover and concludes on the inside-back cover. |
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| Comic Story | Hijack (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Since the start of the Korean fighting, all crime has increased. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mac Jones (gang boss); Max; Blackie Roberts (gangster); Frank Carson (truck dispatcher) |
| Notes | Canale can be recognised by his faces with very movable lips, thin hands, folds in clothing and the special way of moving the legs. He is credited on these series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Canale on this story. |
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| Comic Story | The Criminal's Law of Averages (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Longie Proctor (small-time hood who rose to the top) |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Ed Ashe on this story. |
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| Comic Story | Murder Masks a Black Market (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Bruno Marin (sinister black-marketeer, and murderer) |
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| Comic Story | The Camouflage Killers (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A wave of hotel suite burglaries struck New York in the fall of 1951. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Wayne Douglas (film director); Linda Dailey (screen star) |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Ashe here. |
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| Comic Story | Everglades Manhunt (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Luxury yachts cruising the Florida west coast jungle waterways were prey of a marauding trio of bandits boarding and robbing. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Don; Charlie |
| Notes | Same art as the other stories credited to Ashe by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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