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Issue: Crime Must Pay the Penalty #8

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Publication Date: June 1949

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Issues: #8 of 46 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: An Ace Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Junior Books Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

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Format

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

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky

Inker(s): Louis Zansky

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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In Content Item: Flag

Crime Must Pay the Penalty! #8 published September 1949
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

The Human Bomb

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Gregg ?

Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Anton Kordo

Synopsis: This is the tale of Anton Kordo, a "true split personality," who vacillated between regular family man and canny thief whose signature was that he carried a vial of nitroglycerin in his pocket so the police were afraid to take him down for fear of being blown up.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: This is the "transvestite" story as identified in Overstreet and consists of a three panel scene where Kordo dresses up as a woman to escape capture.

Blades of Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Sy Grudko (signed)

Inker(s): Sy Grudko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, western

Character(s): Jack the Ripper [Western villain]

Synopsis: This is the story of a notorious outlaw who ran crooked gambling games and used two throwing knives instead of guns.

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Pages: 8

The Man Who Talked Too Much

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Clem Weisbecker

Inker(s): Clem Weisbecker

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Ross Barton

Synopsis: The tale of a loud mouthed mechanic who went on a crime spree to prove he was a better bad guy than Dillinger.

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Pages: 6

The Death Signal

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alan Ross

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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Pages: 2

The Ghoulish Gambler

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Giacoia (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Lander (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Synopsis: The story of a chronic gambler who turned to poisoning people to settle his debts.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Artwork signed "F. Giocoia - B. Lander"

Advertisements

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 3

Notes: 3 full page advertisements (Interior front and back covers and back cover) for "The Weatherman" (a device to tell the weather using Disney characters), U.S. Savings Bonds and Kelpidine (a diet product) including a photo of Elizabeth Taylor.