Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) comic books

Add to cart PR 0.5 $45.00 View scan Interior is complete. Severe water damage. Interior soiling (affects readability). 6.5" Spine split from bottom. Cover detached.

Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Gene Leslie and Douglas March. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. This issue was used for illustration #20 in the anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, and mentioned in the text of the book as well. Sally the Sleuth offers to act as a decoy to catch the killer preying on young women - this is the story that won Crime Smashers a spot in Seduction of the Innocent. Reporter Ray Hale investigates a "dope smuggler" who uses remote-control airplanes - but is beautiful Jane trying to help Ray, or kill him? Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective investigates after movie star Lana Lane seemingly murders a TV host during a live broadcast - but something doesn't add up. Sally The Sleuth: Death Bait; Ray Hale, News Ace: Dope Trail; Dan Turner: Televised Frame; Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Death on Display. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $134.95 or Best Offer View scans 2 3/4" cumulative spine split sealed with tape, cover coming loose at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Gene Leslie and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover to infiltrate a blackmail ring that uses pretty girls to capture compromising photos. Gail Ford, Girl Friday goes undercover as a cocaine dealer's girlfriend to catch drug kingpin Spade Samson. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) finds multiple suspects after a blackmailing starlet is murdered on a movie set. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Doubling For a Moll; Sally the Sleuth: Dirty Politics; Ray Hale, News Ace: Body on the Roof; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Blackmail Bump-Off. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $199.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover oxidation. Residue. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

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Cover by Les Zakarin. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Robert McCarty, Jerry Altman and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. In an action-girl story, Sally the Sleuth suspects a carny clown after a go-go dancer is murdered at a carnival, leading to a battle on a roller-coaster track. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a jade dealer and uncovers a smuggling ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective investigates after a hated movie star is murdered on set, in a story with good-girl art by Robert McCarty. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Blood on the Knife; Sally the Sleuth: The Carnival Murder; Ray Hale, News Ace: Hot Hijack; Trumpet of Doom; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Make-Up For Murder. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $64.95 or Best Offer View scan Full length spine split that extends to the majority of the interior wraps sealed with tape and added staples. Majority of the back half of the interior pages are detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Myron Fass cover. Sally the Sleuth in "Murder Wears a Mask" (art by Wally Wood), Ray Hale in "A Noose for News" (art by Ken Battefield), Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in "Bellyboard Bump-Off!" (script by Robert Leslie Bellem), Gail Ford, Girl Friday in "The Case of the Hidden Murder" (art by Pierre Charpentier. Two page text story, "Be Careful, Killer!" by Ric Hasse. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" go undercover to catch an arson gang burning down houses for the insurance money. Reporter Ray Hale witnesses a murder by an abandoned house, but after the victim disappears, he learns he seemingly witnessed an crime that happened 18 years before. When a swimming film star dies during a dive, suspicion falls on her rescuers, who both had a reason to kill her. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Bullet of Treachery; Sally the Sleuth: Peril in the Flames; Ray Hale, News Ace: The Mysterious Tip-Off; The Hand of Fate; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Dive to Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $800.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4371100007

Cover by Wally Wood. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Max Plaisted and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth suspects that a bowling alley is a front for an illegal gambling den. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a dance-hall girl and uncovers a dope ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) investigates blackmail and murder on a movie set, in a story with an extended girl-fight sequence. Bondage-themed cover is early work by comics legend Wally Wood. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Clutch of Evil; Sally the Sleuth: Death Rolls a Strike; Ray Hale, News Ace; Bump the Jackpot; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Off Stage Kill. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $95.00 or Best Offer View scan Full length spine split sealed with tape, cover detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Pierre Charpentier and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner investigates after a masked dancer murders a performer on stage in the middle of an act. Gail Ford risks her life to catch a sniper preying on young women in the city streets. Sally the Sleuth suspects that a photographer's wife is being set up for his murder when her picture appears on the camera in the dead man's hand. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Trail of Terror; Prayer Works Wonders; Sally the Sleuth: Film of Murder; Murder by Sound; When Justice Slipped Its Cogs; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Strangler's Ballet. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The Hollywood Detective faces yet another on-set murder; the twist is that the victim was dressed in a gorilla suit at the time. Gail Ford investigates a crooked lottery using "punchboards," a popular pre-digital gaming system. Sally The Sleuth is on the case when a pin-up artist is stalked by a shapely killer in a cat's mask. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Terror on the Highway; Sally the Sleuth: Prowling Cat; Death on the Lam; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Case of the Slain Gorilla. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $199.95 or Best Offer View scans 3" spine split from top. Cover coming loose at one staple. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart PR 0.5 $75.00 View scan Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Staple rust with migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Tony Tallarico, Ray McClelland, Pierre Charpentier, John C. Mitchell, Bill Fraccio, William Grew and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The ol' "injury-to-the-eye motif" returns, as Dan Turner seeks a killer who fires poison darts into his female victims' eyes! This story also features a deadly Punch & Judy show, hilarious Dan Turner tough-guy dialogue, and a villainous puppet-master who resembles Marvel's Puppet Master. Gail Ford goes undercover at a costume party to catch a wealthy man's killer, in a story with plentiful action-girl art. Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" are mystified when an executed killer seemingly returns from the dead...for revenge. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Murder at First Base; Sally the Sleuth: Back From the Dead; Steve Wilder: Stuck With Murder; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Poisoned Puppet. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #7, while the numbering continues with Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.