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Issue: Prison Break! #5
Publication Date: October 1952
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Issues: #5 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAvon
Brand: A Realistic ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Realistic Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: PRISON BREAK, Oct. 1952. Vol. 1, No. 5, published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. -- from indicia. Story synopses from table of contents page. This issue indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
Format Notes:  
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The Escape King!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Prison Break!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: A brutal, cold-blooded killer...
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In Content Item: FlagTop Adventure Comics #2 published January 1958
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]colorized version of inside front cover panel
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents with short story summaries. Includes story summary for story not in this issue, "Escape to Death!" On inside front cover.
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"Lugs" Malone... the Escape King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): "Lugs" Malone; Sgt. Powers; Weasel Andrews; Bob White; Toricelli; Doc; Barker (prison guard); Tiny
First Line: Cry, ya yellow slob!
Synopsis: "Lugs" Malone -- the Escape King planned the perfect break! And with snarling hatred and flaming guns he carried it through!
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In Content Item: FlagSensational Police Cases #5 published January 1958
as Lugs Malone, the Escape King [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art ID from index of reprint.
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No Jail Could Hold Him

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Daniel Paul Morgan; Edward Morgan
First Line: So you're the famous Danny Morgan, eh?
Synopsis: A brutal, cold-blooded killer, and champion jail-breaker, Danny Morgan blasted his way to freedom! --But he had an inevitable date with death when he thought that--"No Jail Could Hold Him!"
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In Content Item: FlagSensational Police Cases #5 published January 1958
as No Jail Could Hold Him [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Crime Machine #2 published May 1971
as No Jail Could Hold Him! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Tunnel of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Rock Jansen; Mugsy
First Line: The guards ran out into the yard...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mike Bayner... the Scorpion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mike "The Scorpion" Bayner; Big Louis Scalzo; Schlemmer; Geeby
First Line: Cocksure and arrogant...
Synopsis: Dubbed as "The Scorpion," cocksure and arrogant Mike Bayner strong-armed his way to violence and terror -- killing and crushing his enemies!
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In Content Item: FlagSensational Police Cases #5 published January 1958
as Mike Bayner, the Scorpion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Lipstick Murder Case

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Detective Jansen; Detective Bennett' Mrs. Rosa Williams (death); Edna Jasper
First Line: Lipstick marks have on occasion...
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Pages: 1
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Easy Money

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jeff Hamilton (crook); Jeremiah Blanchard
First Line: Nobody runs to the cops!
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In Content Item: FlagSensational Police Cases #5 published January 1958
as Easy Money [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Crime Machine #2 published May 1971
as Easy Money [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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