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Issue: Authentic Police Cases #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1948
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Issues: #4 of 38 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagSt. John
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
Disclose Reprinted From5
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers [as Bee] (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Lubbers [as Bee] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAuthentic Police Cases #2 published November 1948
as Mounties Nab Nugget Killers [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Bee is a pen name of Lubbers (Jerry Bails' Who's Who).
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The Two-Gun Terror of Mohawk Valley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): An Authentic Crime Case
Character(s): Ray Sutherland (killer); John Carlile (Deputy); Norman Green; Henry Bown (Sheriff); Rodney Roach (Deputy); Joe Saunders (Deputy)
Synopsis: Sutherland hated all police and blazed a ruthless trail of death for anyone who dared to oppose him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagPunch Comics #18 published July 1946
was "Ray Sutherland took the law of Mohawk Valley" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Kid Dropper, Manhattan's Mad Mobster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): An Authentic Gang War Story
Character(s): Kid Dropper (killer); Monk Eastman (boss); Johnny Spanish (mobster); Louis Kushner (mobster)
Synopsis: A gangster with the heart of a snake and the soul of a monster.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAuthentic Police Cases #8 published August 1950
as Kid Dropper, Manhattan's Mad Mobster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagPunch Comics #19 published October 1946
was Kid Dropper, King of Killers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Possibly reprint.
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Madman of Moon Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart
Inker(s): Ernie Hart
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, nature
Feature(s): K-9
Character(s): K-9 (police dog); Fay Russel (model); Dick Starr (detective); Tip; Joan Lynn; Doctor Graham (madman)
Synopsis: A girl is killed at night by a madman with rabies.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Hart is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and heads in 3/4 backview are identical to his stories in Black Fury Comics (Charlton), as are the movement of hands, and also the big eyed youngster, Kip.
This may be a hitherto unpublished K-9 story, as it does not appear to be reprinted from a Chesler / Dynamic comic.
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Monument to Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Olin Carpenter [Rufus Olean] (killer); Sheen Muldoon; John Cramer (investigator)
Synopsis: The perfect crime was merely a matter of form.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDynamic Comics #20 published October 1946
was Monument to Death [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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How the "Masked Blackjack" Proved His Innocence

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Gattuso
Inker(s): Paul Gattuso
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAuthentic Police Cases #7 published April 1950
as How the Masked Blackjack Proved His Innocence [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagPunch Comics #13 published April 1945
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally feature indexed as Masked Blackjack, but it is only the alias of the suspect in this apparently true story. Gay Desperado renamed Masked Blackjack.
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Murder On Ice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): An Authentic Crime Saga of the Northwest Mounted Police
Character(s): Constable Bullock; Jess Hendrickson (prospector); Bob Burns (prospector); Sam (Siwash Indian); Joe Claus (killer); Jim Smiley (cowpuncher)
Synopsis: A Mountie tracks down a coldblooded assassin in the frozen wastes of British Columbia.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDynamic Comics #20 published October 1946
was Murder on Ice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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