Record Book of Famous Police Cases (1949) comic books 1949

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Jack Cole, George Tuska, Tex Blaisdell, Paul Gattuso and Howard Larsen. Remaindered St. John crime and adventure comics, collected into a stand-alone anthology. This issue features Authentic Police Cases, The Texan, Son of Sinbad and Secret Missions. Roy and Connor investigate a hot-check ring, in a story with art by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. Reporter Scoop Daily is covering a goodwill mission to Mexico when he learns that corrupt billionaire Oily Welles is trying to start a war between Mexico and the U.S. In an action-girl story, Prairie Kate takes on cattle rustlers, aided only by her kid brother and aged farmhand Cactus Pete. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Gerald Chapman; Master Forgers; Scoop Daily; Crime Does Not Pay!; Jack Diamond; How the Masked Blackjack Proved His Innocence; Two Minutes to Doom; A Double-Cross in Disguise; The Texan; Ghost Terror of the Blackfeet; Prairie Kate; Indians on Horseback; The Lone Vigilante: Graveyard Gulch; Chang Yan's Blazing Sword; Ransom of Shipwreck Shoals!; Omar of the Magic Robes: A Kiss Unmasks a Killer; The Curse of the Caliph's Dancer; The Merchant of Menace; Tragedy for Traitors; The Island of Death!; Death Dates a Blonde Informer. Other variants may exist. 128 pages, Full Color.