| Issue | #3 |
| Published | March 1952 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | GANGSTERS AND GUNMOLLS. March 1952-Vol. 1, No. 3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Cover painting from the paperback Flash Casey, Hard-Boiled Detective by George Harmon Coxe, Avon #143. Index created from a scan of the issue at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/. |
| Genre | Crime |
| Pencils | ? (painted) |
| Inks | ? (painted) |
| Colors | ? (painted) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | GANGSTERS AND GUNMOLLS. March 1952-Vol. 1, No. 3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Cover painting from the paperback Flash Casey, Hard-Boiled Detective by George Harmon Coxe, Avon #143. Index created from a scan of the issue at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/. |
| Notes | Four illustrated summaries of the main stories in this issue. Includes the indicia at the bottom of the page. On inside front cover. |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] |
| Synopsis | Gypsy thief, embezzler, dance-hall girl, gun-toting gang lookout, dope pusher, underworld queen -- the activities of this thrill-crazed murderess led her straight to the penitentiary and eventually to -- death! "Juanita Perez -- The Gypsy Killer!" (from Table of Contents) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | It appears that only the word balloons in the splash panel are hand-lettered. |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 |
| Synopsis | Rocky Lewis was a skilled butcher who was out to make a fast buck! he grubbed around until he uncovered a racket that filled his victims with terror and bathed then in blood! "Insurance for Death!" (from Table of Contents) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | The title is written entirely in lower case letters. |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn]; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 |
| Synopsis | John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi were Al Capone's trigger-men! Theirs was the bloodiest alliance in the history of crime! So fierce was their appetite for slaughter that the underworld called them -- "Crime's Homicide Squad!" (from Table of Contents) |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] |
| Synopsis | A brutal, hardened criminal at the age of eighteen, pretty Marie Swain led her two-man gang on a crime wave all her own! The combination of her innocent face and her itchy trigger finger caused the police to tag her with the label -- "Rod-Baby!" (from Table of Contents page) |
| Reprinted | in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] |