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Issue: Gangsters Can't Win #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1948
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Issues: #4 of 9 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagD.S. Publishing
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: D.S. Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: crime
First Line: It's supposed tolook like suicide
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Suicide on Sound Stage Seven

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Genres: crime, mystery
Feature(s): Ma Barton
Character(s): Ma Barton; Chief Cavanaugh; Ron castle; Evelyn; Rita; Jake Schneider; John Hays; Leslie Mitchell
Synopsis: A number of suspects had a motive for killing Rita and making it look like a suicide.
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Pages: 7
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Mystery of the Murder in the Penthouse

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Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Jane Hunt; Martha; Vic Corson; Rex Hergert; Tim Farrell
Synopsis: Three men are suspected of writing threatening letters and one of them is murdered.
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Pages: 6
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Lefty Schwartz

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Lefty Schwartz [Robert Rittenhauer]; Giuseppi Donato; Ernie Kinney; Johnny Craig; Charlotte; Tommy Fay; Chuck Stein
Synopsis: A true crime story based on the rise and fall of gangster Dutch Schultz.
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Pages: 9
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The Ghost of Mrs. Hicks

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Doc Morris; Mike Eddy; Jimmy Woods; John Hicks; Lucy Hicks
Synopsis: A man on his death bed blames himself for the death of his wife.
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One Eye's Gang

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tex Blaisdell
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): One Eye; Bill; Donkey Stiles; Kitty; Whitey; Big Boy; Turk; Mushmouth Ryan; Mike Reale; Frank
Synopsis: A gangster plans to rob bookmakers in Chicago during a 1945 crime spree.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Indexer Bill Devine credits Philip "Tex" Blaisdell by noting the initials "PB" on a belt buckle on page one and again on a car emblem on the last page. On page 5 appears "Blaisdell" on a building sign in the background.
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Death Holds the Joker

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Edward Starr Frost; Peggy Frost; Tom; Warren Frost; Irene; John Miles
Synopsis: An upstanding family man leads a dual life as a bank robber.
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Frankie the Pug

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Frankie the Pug [Francisco Tomasetta]; Eddie Vail; Harry Unger; Tomasco Grecca; Chuck Lewis; Lix Oronsky; Jesley Jackson; Homer Ingram; Paolo Iannacome; Frank Caccace
Synopsis: A cold blooded killer pulls off robberies and leaves no witnesses.
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