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Issue: All True Crime Cases #26
Publication Date: February 1948
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Issues: #26 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Official Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/16/1947
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Formerly Official True Crime Cases.

Index updated with information from Tom Lammers and atlastales.com.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June 1948.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Killing Was His Business!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Syd Shores
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Wilbur Underhill; Roy
First Line: O.K., coppers... Ya can come around and pick up...
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Crime Cases Comics #26 published January 1948
as Killing Was His Business! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Alascia inks per Nick Caputo, December 2019. Previous indexer credited Shores.
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Killing Was His Business!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Becker ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Fate (introduction; host of crime stories; only appearance?); Wilbur Underhill; Roy; Benson; Bradley
Synopsis: Wilbur worships his gun 'sweetheart' but falls out of favour with other criminals because he kills people during robberies. After Roy turns Wilbur in, Wilbur breaks out of prison and kills Roy for betraying him. Wilbur's killing spree finally brings the FBI down on him and 'Sweetheart' jams during the gunfight, leaving the FBI to riddle him with bullets.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Job Number: 2127
Disclose Notes: Possible Becker pencils per Nick Caputo, December 2019.
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Guns Talked in Abilene!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, western
Character(s): John Wesley Hardin (dies in this story); Wild Bill Hickok; Nate Somers; Sal; Selman
Synopsis: When Hardin injures Selman in an arrest attempt, Selman vows vegeance. Some 25 years later, Hardin gets out of prison and Selman executes him in the street. Selman is himself killed.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 2278
Disclose Notes: Semi-historical biographical account of western outlaw John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895); features lawman James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876).
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[untitled]

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Wanted by the F.B.I.
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Pages: 1
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One of These Circus Performers Is a Killer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett ?; ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Bill Everett ?; ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mike Trapp; Faro the Armless Wonder; Nola; Crandall; Giganto; Spike
Synopsis: Crandall is murdered, seemingly by a strong man, but Trapp discerns Crandall was actually killed by someone with strong feet - Faro. Faro runs from Trapp but falls to his death on the high wire.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 2144
Disclose Notes: Nick Caputo suspects Bill Everett was involved in some combination of pencils or inks.

Blurbs on splash read, "An 'All-True Crime' Extra" and "Detective Mike Trapp was able to pick out the murderer! Can You?" Solution of the crime printed upside down in last panel.
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Born to Hang

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.67
Job Number: 2326
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Remember!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: "The finest, funniest, most exciting, most interesting, comic magazines you can buy are the Marvel Group magazines / Martin Goodman Publisher / Stan Lee Editor."
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: For Official True Crime Cases Comics, 1 Oct 1947. Stan Lee, Editor and Managing Editor; Martin Goodman, Business Manager.
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He Lived with Danger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): John J. Broderick; Slugger; Lefty; Henry; Dave
Synopsis: Broderick switches from fire fighting to police work and becomes a dedicated policeman, working his way up to detective by never shrinking from danger.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 2162
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For the Best in Teen Comic Reading

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Shows cover mastheads of Teen, Junior Miss, Willie, Miss America, Margie, Gay, Jeanie, Joker, Nellie, Patsy Walker, Millie, Georgie, Oscar, Rusty, Cindy, Tessie, and Frankie.
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The Mighty Manhunt!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores ?
Inker(s): Syd Shores ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Hugh De Autremont; Roy De Autremont; Ray De Autremont; Arthur; Raleigh; Myers
Synopsis: After robbing a train the De Autremont brothers change their names and try to disappear but eventually the FBI follows a lead to their new identities and the brothers are all arrested.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 2238

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