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Issue: War Against Crime! #5
Publication Date: February 1949
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Issues: #5 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William M. Gaines
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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 ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime! #5 published March 1949
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Little Miss Mob Marker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig ?
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Policemen [Bill; other unnamed]; Betty Zalman [aka Mob Marker; Miss Swenley] (villain, death); Happy Gordon (villain, racketeer); Marker's Gang (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Betty was a drugstore counter girl who was not content with an easy, slow life. She wanted things and wanted them now, so she resorted to using a gun and hopped up gunmen to get them for her. Her first target was found at the Fifty-Four Club and she was then on a roll of crime and murder, teaming up with racketeer, Happy Gordon. Having banked most her loot, Betty wants to retire, but fears Gordon will not allow it, so she decides to betray Gordon to the law. Wounded, Gordon decides on payback.....and gets his revenge.
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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as Little Miss Mob Marker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Thommy Burns, in his hard cover October 2019 volume "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", published by Fantagraphics Books, mentions that by this time in Craig's career, Craig was scripting almost all the stuff he was illustrating.

Script credit by Thommy Burns, added by Craig Delich.
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Curse of the Pharaoh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Metropolis Museum guards [Bill; Johnson; Brown; Kelly]; Jim (museum detective); Towne (museum curator); Mr. Daly (detective); Tut-Ma (Pharoah of Egypt, image only); Fingers Sharp (villain, jewel thief, death)
Synopsis: A fabulous emerald scarab, once the property of the Pharoah of Egypt and worth a million dollars. is on display at the Metropolis Museum. The museum's detective, however, is worried as a noted jewel thief has been casing the museum and soon steals it. However, the scarab he stole soon reveals the location of the thief, who dies at the hands of a detective.
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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as Curse of the Pharaoh [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Three Time Loser

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as Three-Time Loser [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Law's Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as The Law's Revenge! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer's credit given in "Al Feldstein: The Mad Life ..." (2013)

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