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Issue: "Crime Must Stop!" Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1952
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Crime Must Stop!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Femme fatale with a gun; monstrous thugs; victim
Synopsis: The evil femme orders the thugs to hurl the victim into a grave with quicklime (to dissolve the body faster).
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Pages: 1
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A Trigger in the Family

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Doc Mantell; Eddie Harper; a daughter
Synopsis: A criminal on the lam takes a chance to see his long-lost daughter, with tragic results.
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Pages: 5
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Rusty Bullets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Chopper Benson; Tommy Garden; hobos; a retired cop/shopkeeper
Synopsis: Chopper Benson is set free after 20 years as "a guest of the state", but finds the world has changed - and he can't adapt.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Suspicions another hand may have penciled the splash page.
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The Sunshine Courier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): US Investigator Paul Martin; Colonel Blair; sunbathing secretaries
Synopsis: Someone is leaking secrets from the office in Washington, DC, but everyone's too busy gawking at the sunbathing secretaries to figure it out.
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Pages: 5
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The Black Chain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Johnny Kopeck; Al Hubans
Synopsis: A coal miner who survives a cave-in quits mining and falls into being a getaway driver.
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Pages: 7
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The Loaded Dutchman

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): The Humble Dutchman
Synopsis: A sharp smuggler uses innocent women to smuggle jewels on an ocean liner.
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Pages: 2
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The Cardboard Lamb

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): George and Charlie Randolph; Elaine Morse; Treasury Agents
Synopsis: A twin brother sneaks aboard an ocean liner as a steward to kill his rich cousin and take his place.
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Pages: 7
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The Stone Net

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Anton; Papa Leon; gendarmes
Synopsis: In a small town in the French countryside, two burglars target a manor house - that the local gendarmes call "The Chateau of Regret".
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Pages: 4
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The Gypsy Water Curse

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Frankie; Gus; "Gypsy"
Synopsis: In the American desert, Frankie loves to swim at every opportunity. But when they plan an armored car robbery, Gypsy warns Frankie to "stay away from water."
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Pages: 8

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