Issue: #3
Published: March 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: GANGSTERS AND GUNMOLLS. March 1952-Vol. 1, No. 3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Cover painting from the paperback Flash Casey, Hard-Boiled Detective by George Harmon Coxe, Avon #143. Index created from a scan of the issue at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Juanita Perez The Gypsy Killer! |
| Synopsis: |
Gypsy thief, embezzler, dance-hall girl, gun-toting gang lookout, dope pusher, underworld queen -- the activities of this thrill-crazed murderess led her straight to the penitentiary and eventually to -- death! "Juanita Perez -- The Gypsy Killer!" (from Table of Contents) |
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Letters: ?; typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Juanita Perez [aka Janet Pollard] Hutchins Ed Reilly Tony Arolla Officer I.R. Moody |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Insurance for Death! |
| Synopsis: |
Rocky Lewis was a skilled butcher who was out to make a fast buck! he grubbed around until he uncovered a racket that filled his victims with terror and bathed then in blood! "Insurance for Death!" (from Table of Contents) |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Rocky Lewis Betty Anthony Cardell Hastings Barton |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Crime's Homicide Squad! |
| Synopsis: |
John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi were Al Capone's trigger-men! Theirs was the bloodiest alliance in the history of crime! So fierce was their appetite for slaughter that the underworld called them -- "Crime's Homicide Squad!" (from Table of Contents) |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
John Scalisi Albert Anselmi O'Banion Mike Genna Tony Lombardi Al Capone |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Marie Swain, "Rod-Baby!" |
| Synopsis: |
A brutal, hardened criminal at the age of eighteen, pretty Marie Swain led her two-man gang on a crime wave all her own! The combination of her innocent face and her itchy trigger finger caused the police to tag her with the label -- "Rod-Baby!" (from Table of Contents page) |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Marie Swain Frank Harry |
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