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Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) comic books

  • Issue #5
    Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) 5
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4443515010
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    All comic stories reprinted in Horrors (1953) #13. In order of appearance: "Carl Rittech, The King of Crime Castle" retitled as "Terror Castle" in Horrors (1953) #13; "James Wayburn Hall, The Arkansas Butcher"; and "The Dead Tell No Tales". "Murder That Backfired" text story reprinted in Crime Incorporated (1950) #12 and Spectacular Features Magazine (1950) #3. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) 12
    • Cover detached at one staple. Water damage. 1" tear from top. Chew.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4347781018
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Art by Rudy Palais and others. One of the more notorious pre-Code crime comics. George Kelly, aka Machine Gun Kelly, kidnaps oil tycoon Charles Urschel for a $200,000 ransom; Depression-era bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd becomes an unlikely folk hero; Johnny Socks Lazia rises to be the supreme gang boss in Kansas City of the late 1920s. George Kelly the Machine Gun Kid; Pretty Boy Floyd; A Pattern for Murder; Johnny Socks Lazia. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.