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Issue: Lawbreakers Always Lose #7
Publication Date: April 1949
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Issues: #7 of 10 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Crime Bureau Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/31/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Lem Parkins, the Killer Who Couldn't Stop!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: crime
Character(s): Lem Parkins
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unknown pencils and inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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Lem Parkins the Weak-Minded Gun-Crazy Killer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Philip Corcoran; Lemuel 'Lem' Perkins; Janey Perkins; John 'Slim' Perkins; Louie 'Spade' Ricci; Bugsy; Horseface Horace; Billy the Kid Balbusti; Irving 'Chopper' Green; Silky Dugan; Dr. Walter Nobson; Mex Mantro; Mr. Stegmeyer; Herbert Kovert; Madge Corcoran; Bernstein; Mulloy; Joe; Gino Rosatti
Synopsis: Lem believes in killing people he robs to avoid witnesses. When Slim is injured during a holdup Lem abandons him and frames him for a policeman's murder. Philip sends Slim to the electric chair and Lem tries to murder Philip in revenge, but only kills Madge instead. Philip begins a dedicated campaign to get Lem. Lem and Jane change their features with plastic surgery but Philip ambushes them before they can get out of New York. Lem abandons Jane to her death then dies in a hail of police bullets.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: 5035
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A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents! Hi, Friends

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Kako 'One-Eye' Delorte / He Left the Casbah -- Alive!

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Kako 'One-Eye' Delorte; Julio Jirez; Karl Menzel; Ali Borab; Stepan Kasakourian; Slasher
Synopsis: Kako poses as a one-eyed robber to join the criminal underworld then captures the gang hiding in the Casbah.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 4551
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Tight Spot

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #98 published December 1950
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Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-3626
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[untitled]

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Genres: crime, opinion
Feature(s): Wanted by the F.B.I.
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The Crime Across the Court!

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Skip McCoy; Chester; Bill Grinko; Mike Trivet
Synopsis: After Trivet gets out of prison Grinko is soon found dead. Chester claims Trivet killed him but McCoy realizes Chester is the killer.
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Job Number: 5031
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Kid Melton the Killer Without a Friend!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Character(s): Kid Melton; Spuds; Tom-Tom; Pete; Margie; Rip Murdock; Mr. Martin; Pinky
Synopsis: Kid Melton became a criminal at a young age and never stood up for his allies, turning on his friend Pinky in court. After getting out of reform school, Melton went to work for Rip Murdock but killed him to steal his moll, Margie. Melton turned the gang's activities into smuggling, but they all turned against him because of his conceited personality. Shortly after executing Melton in a driveby, the gang is arrested by the police and FBI.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 2539
Disclose Notes: A black and white reproduction of this story's opening panel appears in the November 1953 issue of Ladies' Home Journal.

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