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Issue: Approved Comics #8

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Publication Date: June 1954

Issue #8
- #1
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- ✔ #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
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Issues: #8 of 12 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

St. John

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

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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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: crime

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Pages: 1

A Tough Beat

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Joe Bryant (hero, honest cop); Kid Coy [Joe Bryant Jr] (hoodlum)

First Line: Get him, Mike -- Shoot!

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Pages: 6

Notes: Starr is credited on both pencil and ink on crime stories for St. John by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by his faces, with quite broad mouth. He had most of the Bantam Buckaroo stories for ACG.

Durable Mike Malloy

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Michael Malloy; Tony Marino; Joe Murphy; Harry Green; Frank Pasqua; Dan Kreisberg; Doctor Frank Manzella

First Line: Michael Malloy was a mere shell of a man...

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Pages: 8

The Squealers

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Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Michael Malloy (alcoholic tramp); Eliot Graham (reporter); Captain Mike Farrow; Tony Benuiti; Joe Ashly (crook); Red Hogan (crook); Gus Hall (crook); Detective Willy Rose; Charlie Winters (pawnbroker); Detective Ed Worth

First Line: A trio of gun-punks turned to killing...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Notes as for the first story.

Kill-Crazy John Dillinger

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Genres: crime

Character(s): John Dillinger; Melvin Purvis

First Line: On the night of July 22, 1834...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Art was originally credited to Louis Ravelli?, but faces with bushy eyebrows drawn with lines perpendicular is a sure sign of Olesen, as can best be seen on the last page. He did many western stories of The Hawk for St. John. He is also credited on crime stories for St. John by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Dream Horse Winners

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Rick Fraser (horseplayer); Horace Fraser; Mr. Wickham (bank manager); Sleet Higgins (bookie); Handle (bookie); Pete Petrone (jockey)

First Line: Rick Fraser, incurable horseplayer...

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Pages: 6