What an odd hybrid this comic is! Sherlock Holmes is basically pasted into traditional crime stories, either as narrator or fringe participant. But they don't seem to have been cut-and-pasted. What strange editorial thought brought this about?
By Andrew999
Picked this up from random 12
I agree with the comment from Crash – a bizarre use of the Sherlock Holmes persona, linked to random (though well drawn) ‘true crime’ (yeah, right) stories. I can only imagine it was a vain attempt to cash in on the movies and radio series popular at the time.
My favourite story was the last one – Death at the Opera
By nenslo
We all agree - it's a crazy mess! Not least of which is the cover. Why is the woman in green so HUGE? She is a good 20% larger than the other, and the event depicted doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the comic. The first story is especially nonsensical and absurd. In both Holmes stories he sometimes begins a sentence in the narration box and continues it into a speech balloon, something I have never seen before! This is a true gem of perplexity.
By The Australian Panther
Well, for mine, the way the lady in Green on the cover is holding that shoe looks really awkward and wrong.
Indicia reads: "SPECTACULAR STORIES MAGAZINE (formerly Star Presentations Magazine)." On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1950 Periodicals, page 271.
Indexed from a scan from http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/.
Cover
1 page
Genre
Crime
First Line
No you don't, sister!
Comic Story
Joe Katone: Alias, Joe the Baker! / Sherlock Holmes (10 pages)
Genre
Crime
Characters
Sherlock Holmes; Joe Katone; Inspector Morgan; Maria
Comic Story
Alfred Brady... Gun Crazy Killer (9 pages)
Genre
Crime
Characters
Alfred Brady; Rod Dunhover; Stub; Bates; Alf
Text Story
The Living Death! (2 pages)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Edward Brownson; Michael Dormond; Frank Blake; Louis Harper; Detective Simpson
Comic Story
Walter Marino... Death at the Opera! / Sherlock Holmes (10 pages)
Genre
Crime
Characters
Sherlock Holmes; Walter Marino; Ralph Tedwell; Juanita Espoto; Thompson; Sparks
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