Lot of 6 Pre-Code CRIME Comics * 1950s

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Title: CRIME COMICS. Lot of Six Mags: CRIME CLINIC No. 3 * FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE No. 3 * INSIDE CRIME No. 2 * MARTIN KANE No. 4 * UNDERWORLD No. 3 * WANTED No. 35
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Publisher:Various Publishers
Date Published: 1940s-1950s
Description:

CRIME CLINIC 3: VG. Small chip at spine foot, 2" spine split, subscription crease, cream to off-white pages. 36pp. Flogging panels. USED IN SOTI.

FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE 3: VG-. Small chip top edge front cover, some creasing, penciled circles to front & back covers, some dampsoiled corners, off-white pages. 36pp. Reprints from Authentic Police Cases #6, USED IN SOTI (sexy innuendo: "You're not goin' to use that rod, are you?").

INSIDE CRIME 2: VG/Fine. Nice copy, offsetting to front cover from inside front cover inks, off-white pages. 36pp. USED IN SOTI.

MARTIN KANE, PRIVATE EYE 4 [1st ish]. Fine. Nice mag, cream to off-white pages. 36pp. Tips on smuggling opium concealed in cigarets. USED IN SOTI.

UNDERWORLD 3. Fair. Front cover detached, off-white pages. 52pp. Gory hatchet-in-head panel. Overstreet: "Extreme violence, mutilation."

WANTED 35. VG. Abrasion to top corner of front cover, white to off-white pages. 52pp. USED IN SOTI.

No restoration, missing pages, clipped coupons, color touches, tape, or ink.

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