GANG BUSTERS #3 * CGC 6.0 * SEDUCTION of the INNOCENT *

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Title: GANG BUSTERS No. 3
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Comics Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: April-May, 1948
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CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Howard Sherman. No story credits. Art: Dan Berry, George Roussos, George Papp, Charles Paris. Illustrated in SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT. CGC Census: Nine graded copies. GPAnalysis: Only one sale in any grade in the past ten years: an 8.0 sold for $900 in June 2021.

Even tame crime mags like DC's Gang Busters drew the ire of bluenosed Dr. Wertham. This mag is condemned in SOTI for a panel depicting a blueprint for a criminal's murder scheme. Wertham, who claimed that comics taught kids criminal techniques, called the panel a "comic-book map for crime."

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