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Issue: All True Crime #40
Publication Date: September 1950
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Issues: #40 of 16 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Leading Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1950, page 159, registration number B254730.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
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The Highway Massacre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: After being robbed twice by Pelley Larry loses his job on suspicion that he was aiding the hijackers. Unable to find work, Larry ends up working for Pelley. Larry marries Linda and tries to go straight but when Pelley uses Larry's farm as a hideout Larry finally turns on him. Pelley kills Linda and Larry dies killing Pelley.
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Pages: 10
Job Number: 5219
Disclose Notes: Klein inks per Nick Caputo. previous indexer credited Vern Henkel.
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Death at the Auction!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: While trying to be a shill at an auction house Homer winds up giving all his money for Billy the Kid's gun. When he tries to sell it at a pawn shop the dealer assumes Homer is robbing him and empties his till. Homer decides to become a robber but in his first real hold-up a policeman arrives and shoots him dead.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Inks are likely by various hands. Info per Nick Caputo.
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Matches Mangin, the Crook Who Couldn't Act

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: Matches believes he could be a great actor and uses his impersonation skills in crime. Matches and Beadle kill Dane and his butler then take over their lives, but he forgets Dane is supposed to be a misanthrope in his eagerness to sell off part of Dane's art collection to Gentry. Gentry brings in Johnson, who quickly determines 'Dane' is a fake. Johnson claims the police are on the way and cautions Matches not to try and escape through the balcony outside his office window. Matches ignores him and goes to do just that - but there is no balcony and he falls to his death.
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Murder is No Joke

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Job Number: SL-3267
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The Crown Jewel Theft

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: Blood befriends Talbot to get close enough to the Crown Jewels to steal them but Talbot's son returns home in the midst of the robbery and catches the gang.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee. Nick also believes the inks were supplied by various hands incuding Klein and Everett.
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"Tut" Newsome

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: After getting out of prison Tut kills a bartender. An injury later robs him of his speech and he returns to prison. Escaping jail he flees into the snow but finds a cabin inhabited by a deaf man who can't hear him knocking on the door. Tut dies in the cold.
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Pages: 9
Job Number: 5245
Disclose Notes: Credits per Nick Caputo, December 2019.

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