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Issue: Crime Patrol #7
Publication Date: January 1948
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Issues: #7 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/28/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William M. Gaines
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1948, page 32, registration number B134158.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover and interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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The Field Marshal of Murder!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig [as Craig] (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig [as Craig] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Captain Crime
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Field-Marshal of Murder!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig [as Craig] (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig [as Craig] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ? (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Captain Crime!
Character(s): Captain Crime [aka "Trigger" Hancock] (introduction); General Grimmler [aka The Field Marshall of Murder] (villain, escaped Gestapo Chief, introduction, death); Grimmler's gang [Ape Benson (death); others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: A reign of terror drops like a grim shadow...
Synopsis: Crime first ran into Grimmler in the Balkans, but the criminal had friends in this nation who hid, fed and clothed him, and was surrounded by a gang of cutthroats and bandits. In order to battle Grimmler, Crime establishes an alias of Trigger Hancock and challenges Grimmler with his own gang. When Grimmler decides to put Hancock in his own gang, and proposes they take Fort Knox. Hancock readily agrees, but Grimmler doesn't know it is a carefully designed trap to catch him.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
as The Field-Marshall of Murder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Only appearance of Captain Crime.

Captain Crime was a former U.S. Army paratrooper turned hard-boiled G-Man.

According to Tales of Terror: The EC Companion, Johnny Craig thought this story was written by either Gardner Fox or Ivan Klapper.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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Death By Rocket Bomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Van Manhattan
First Line: The great capitols of the world lie open to V2 rocket...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
as Death by Rocket Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit confirmed in Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Slaughter From the Sky!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Chessmen
First Line: Above the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Mysterious Pencil Sharpener! (Part 2)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: "All right, Buddy!" the dark-haired gum-chewing...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
as The Mysterious Pencil Sharpener! Continued [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank D. Lee; William E. Fernie
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): International Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Statement of ownership for International Comics for October 1, 1947. Sworn to and subscribed by Frank D. Lee, business manager, before William E. Fernie, notary public, on September 22, 1947. Ivan Klapper is named as editor. The owner is listed as the Estate of M. C. Gaines, deceased.
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The Rocket In the Ruins!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Madelon
First Line: High in the Cottian Alps linking France and Italy...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #1 published April 2000
as The Rocket in the Ruins! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit confirmed in Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

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