It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!

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Here's the splash from the first of five stories that also include:

MONSTER IN THE PARLOR!

SLAVE TO HABIT!

TRAIL OF DOOM!

DEAD MAN'S DEPT!

plus the featurette THE GARLIC TRAIL and the classic ad for "SAVE YOUR HAIR".

 

 

SLAVE TO HABIT is about a crooked professor and his discovery of "Nitro X-3".

 

 

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....the advert makes the comic!great stuff!

I was going through some boxes and found a serious cover swipe

Fight against Crime issue 2 7/51 then compare

Police against Crime issue 5 12/54

see anything that looks similar, talk about I need a cover lets just copy this, its been three years no one will notice or care.

They didn't even alter the dialogue...

Anticipating the code, swapping guns for billy clubs.

There is a more conceptual rather than artistic swipe from FaC #12 to PaC #4.

A couple new Chesslers:

Love the Cheslers Robot

Love the Cheslers Robot

Those Chesler artists, always sneaking topless women onto the cover.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/8722534115_b2a67d381e_z.jpg' alt='8722534115_b2a67d381e_z.jpg'>IMG CRIME EXPOSED #9

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Is this a "Pennsylvania" copy?

Is this a "Pennsylvania" copy?

 

Well, the crime rate has been rising in Pennsylvania, so it's entirely possible.

I thought you were going to a party...

I thought you were going to a party...

The wonders of iPhones!

You went to a party on your phone?

My latest acquisition. I'd long been intrigued by this book after seeing it in the Photo-Journal back in the 90's, but as the cover isn't anything special hadn't hunted it down.

I finally bit the bullet as I was curious about the early Gene Colan artwork and how a "book-length" story played out, as there are so few in crime comics.

Colan, who did the cover, illustrates in a cartoony style that while not as detailed as his later work, I found fun. He already shows a talent for dynamic compositional flow. The plotting is full of conveniences and convoluted rational, and not exactly as mysterious as the cover promises, but at least there is a plot, which is more than one can say for the bulk of pre-code crime stories. By today's standards there's enough there to fill a mini-series.

Great book, great series!

My latest acquisition. I'd long been intrigued by this book after seeing it in the Photo-Journal back in the 90's, but as the cover isn't anything special hadn't hunted it down.

 

I finally bit the bullet as I was curious about the early Gene Colan artwork and how a "book-length" story played out, as there are so few in crime comics.

 

Colan, who did the cover, illustrates in a cartoony style that while not as detailed as his later work, I found fun. He already shows a talent for dynamic compositional flow. The plotting is full of conveniences and convoluted rational, and not exactly as mysterious as the cover promises, but at least there is a plot, which is more than one can say for the bulk of pre-code crime stories. By today's standards there's enough there to fill a mini-series.

 

 

 

Very nice! I think Madge deserves all the dough

Cool Book! Never had that one.

I kinda feel for poor "Johnny the Fall Guy". Instead of his share he only got hot lead...