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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published August 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia (scan from bipcomics.com): MARTIN KANE, Private-Eye, August 1950, No. 2. Published bi-monthly by HERO BOOKS, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Executive offices at 60 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending. Price 10c per copy. Yearly subscription in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, 75c including postage. $1.50 elsewhere. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1950 by Hero Books, Inc., Contents must not be reproduced without permission. Except those who have authorized the use of their names herein, the stories, names, characters, incidents, and institutions mentioned or portrayed in this periodical are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred. Printed in U.S.A.

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Notes Indicia (scan from bipcomics.com): MARTIN KANE, Private-Eye, August 1950, No. 2. Published bi-monthly by HERO BOOKS, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Executive offices at 60 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending. Price 10c per copy. Yearly subscription in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, 75c including postage. $1.50 elsewhere. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1950 by Hero Books, Inc., Contents must not be reproduced without permission. Except those who have authorized the use of their names herein, the stories, names, characters, incidents, and institutions mentioned or portrayed in this periodical are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred. Printed in U.S.A.

10 page William Gargan as Martin Kane Private Eye story "The Man Of Many Faces"

Genre Crime

2 page William Gargan Junior Detective Club story "How This Crime Was Solved-Tatooed Stool Pigeon"

Genre Crime
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Notes Art credits supplied by Gary Watson, March 2008.

9 page Zack Bodego as told by Martin Kane story "Zack Bodego The Crusher"

Genre Crime
Pencils Lou Ferstadt
Inks Lou Ferstadt
Notes Art credits supplied by Gary Watson, March 2008.

3 page story "Case Number 1156-The Case Of the Choppers"

Genre Crime
Pencils A. C. Hollingsworth
Inks A. C. Hollingsworth

2 page text story "The Tunnel Was A Secret"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset

5 page William Gargan as Martin Kane Private Eye story "John Hamilton-Hard Luck Killer"

Genre Crime
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood