Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) 9

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Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Ray McClelland, H. C. Kiefer and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth uses her feminine wiles to infiltrate a hot-jewelry ring, in one of several stories in this issue featuring good-girl art.Gail Ford goes undercover to find a mobster's killer, in a story with good-girl art by Ray McClelland. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective investigates murder in a sleeper-car train movie set, in a story with plentiful good-girl art by Max Plaisted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Case of the Frustrated Moll; Sally the Sleuth: Blonde Decoy; Ray Hale, News Ace; Brains Pay Off; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Corpse in Lower 9. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.