COMPLETE BOOK OF TRUE CRIME COMICS * No # * 3.0 * Biro & the Boys

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Title: COMPLETE BOOK OF TRUE CRIME COMICS * No Number
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Publisher:Wm. H. Wise & Co.
Date Published: c.1944
Description: G/VG (3.0). A few chips and tears to squarebound spine, 1" TAPE RAPAIR to spine, 3" spine split, a few nicks and short tears, a few small chips and color flakes, corner crease. Cream to light tan pages.

Credits: Cover: Charles Biro? Editor: Charles Biro? Art: Harry Lucey, Carl Hubbell?, Bob Montana, George Tuska?, Dick Briefer, Norman Maurer?, Ray Gill, Alan Mandel, Bart Tumey, Sam Burlokoff, Louis Trakis, Frank Giacoia. Big, fat 132-pager with 22 stories.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.5 sold for $300 in 4/23, and a 3.5 sold for $250 in 7/20.Gigantic Gleason Grab Bag: Fat pack of Lev Gleason crime stories repackaged in a massive squarebound special edition. Contents include Crime Does Not Pay #22 and other classic crime mags. Overflowing with violence and rascality: goons drench guys in gas and set 'em ablaze; pistol-play a'plenty; gallon of acid dumped in guy's face; guy takes dumdum slug to the dome; horny Wild Bill Hickok "warms the bosoms of fair Western belles" with his smokin' six-shooter, gets shot point-blank in the brainpan; crazed killer fleeing the fuzz bumps blonde bystander, causing her skirt to fly up as she lands on her keister; psychotic hillbilly busts cap in baby ("Shut up brat! Stop ya squawking or I'll.... BANG BANG!"); killer's severed skull mounted on tree as warning to roughnecks; sex crimes; Captain America clone, War Eagle, wears a blue tunic with a big white star on the chest and red and white midriff stripes, trespassing Timely's trademark; woman drowned in well; graverobbers swing on gallows; corpses carved; steamy pantyhose pix; etc.______________________________________________________________

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