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Issue: War Against Crime #1
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Volume: 1
Pages: 180
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Content Items: 51 (26 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior with some color
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
Paper Stock: bond interior with glossy cover reprints
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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War Against Crime

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First Line: Sorry, sir -- your time is up!!
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Public Enemy... The Story of "Machine-Gun" Kelley!

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First Line: Justice wears a blindfold...
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Portfolio of Death!

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Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Emil Antonescu (shop owner, business partner of Martine); J. S. Maxim (Police Commissioner, mention only); Dmitri Martine (villain, death); Fabros (villain, death)
First Line: This is the story of a man...
Synopsis: Dmitri Martine spent much of his time cooperating with arch criminals and international bandits as well as with the Police, looking to make a fast buck any way he could. One day he was told that the police had secret evidence against him and that all the members of his organization had been arrested. Dimitri sent his men to police HQ to grab this info, but discovers it was bait used to bring an end to the arch criminal.
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...The Story Behind the Cover!

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First Line: Oh, no ya don't!
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The Ruby Stickpin!

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First Line: Murder will out!
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Smokin' Six-Guns!

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Character(s): Ellen Harvey; Sheriff Martin Hughes; Tom Harvey (villain, death); Bud Harvey (villain)
First Line: They fancied themselves as modern Jesse James'...
Synopsis: Two brothers who fancy themselves as modern Jesse Jameses, start their careers as train robbers, but when they meet opposition, they turn into cold blooded killers.
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Interview with William Gaines

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First Line: Guilty of murder in the first degree!
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Hank "Two-Gun" Corley!

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Feature(s): War Against Crime
First Line: You would never have heard of him...
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Sure-Fire Winners!

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War Against Crime hasw

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The Crystal Ball Killer

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First Line: You will die within ten days, my dear!
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The Snow Trail

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First Line: Corporal Douglas Ivy of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police...
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America's First Crime

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Feature(s): A True History Crime
Character(s): Benedict Arnold
First Line: Think, if you can, of the worst conceivable crime!
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Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is reprinted in Alter Ego #110 (June 2012), where the art credits are verified by Leonard Starr.
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The Saga of Spotlight John

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Genres: crime, western
Character(s): Spotlight John Morlan (death); Lightnin' Bill Sutter (villain, mention only, death); Scar Meldrum (villain, death); Meldrum's gang (villains, many die)
First Line: A spotlight was food and drink to Spotlight John Morlan.
Synopsis: John Morlan, always wanting to be in the spotlight, comes out west, wanting to pattern himself after other desperados, killers and robbers so he can be in the spotlight, so gang leader Scar Meldrum accommodates John and teaches him the ropes. Unfortunately for him, John was only a pretend crook who ended up as if he were a real bad man: at the end of a rope!
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First Line: Johnny Craig's connection with 225 Lafayette Street...
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Frisco Florrie Queen of the Barbary Coast!

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First Line: From high street down to the warves...
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The Case of the Savage Strongboy

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First Line: Willie Blake was a carnival strong man.
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First Line: As far as the pre-trend crime books were concerned...
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The Deadly Habit

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First Line: Meadows held the rough edge of the iron fire poker...
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First Line: The scripter of '"Machine-Gun' Kelly stayed pretty close to the facts.
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The Do-It-Yourself Kid and the Dimpled Doll

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First Line: The kid had one motto...
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First Line: Ed Moore ("The Ruby Stickpin, WAC #1)...
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The Machine-Gun Mad Mobsters

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Character(s): Rocks Balters; Squint; Chick; district attorney; Jim; many unnamed mobsters, witnesses, police
First Line: The Ralos and the Boardwalk Busters were rival gangs...
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The Menace of the Railroads!

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Feature(s): Choo-Choo Jones
Character(s): Tom 'Choo-Choo' Jones; Diana Rage; J. L. Grover; Superintendent Peters; Susan; Mauler; Baldy; Pop Jones; Engineer White
Synopsis: Train wrecks have been plaguing the Happy Valley Railroad of late and Diana Rage wants this to continue so that she can buy it very cheap.
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A Matter of Minutes!

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Character(s): Jess Martin; Uncle Bryan Martin; Bellows; police detective
First Line: Jess Martin drew the revolver from his coat pocket, and...
Synopsis: Jess thinks he has the perfect plan to murder his uncle. Or has he?
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The Robbery Ring The Case of the Striking Serpent!

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Character(s): Three unnamed hoodlums; Mr. Connors; Legrand; Inspector Hall
First Line: The stakes were enormous in this duel between the...
Synopsis: Three hoodlums commit a robbery in a jewelry shop.
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Little Miss Mob Marker

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Character(s): Policemen [Bill; other unnamed]; Betty Zalman [aka Mob Marker; Miss Swenley] (villain, death); Happy Gordon (villain, racketeer); Marker's Gang (villains, some die)
First Line: Betty Zalman was a counter-girl in a city five-and-dime store.
Synopsis: Betty was a drugstore counter girl who was not content with an easy, slow life. She wanted things and wanted them now, so she resorted to using a gun and hopped up gunmen to get them for her. Her first target was found at the Fifty-Four Club and she was then on a roll of crime and murder, teaming up with racketeer, Happy Gordon. Having banked most of her loot, Betty wants to retire, but fears Gordon will not allow it, so she decides to betray Gordon to the law. Wounded, Gordon decides on payback.....and gets his revenge.
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Script credit by Thommy Burns, added by Craig Delich.
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Curse of the Pharaoh

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Character(s): Metropolis Museum guards [Bill; Johnson; Brown; Kelly]; Jim (museum detective); Towne (museum curator); Mr. Daly (detective); Tut-Ma (Pharaoh of Egypt, image only); Fingers Sharp (villain, jewel thief, death)
First Line: Through the pages of history, men spoke of the famed...
Synopsis: A fabulous emerald scarab, once the property of the Pharaoh of Egypt and worth a million dollars, is on display at the Metropolis Museum. The museum's detective, however, is worried as a noted jewel thief has been casing the museum. The thief soon steals it, but the scarab he stole soon reveals his location, and he dies at the hands of a detective.
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Interview with EC Creators

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Three Time Loser

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Character(s): Jim Shank; Fred Drogg; Red Sampson; unnamed police officer
First Line: Jim Shank was a three-time loser.
Synopsis: Jim Shank was a pretty good safecracker, however his look-outs were not good at their tasks.
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The Law's Revenge!

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Character(s): Charles Hanley; Frank Binder; landlady; gas station attendant; two motorcycle policemen; Ralph Duncan; Mrs. Duncan; detective Walker; police chief; Barkley; watchman; judge
First Line: Yes, Charles Hanley, this is it!.. Your last mile!
Synopsis: Hanley is on the run, wanted for a robbery and murder. He fakes his death by killing another man, swapping identification cards and assuming the identity of Ralph Duncan.
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Disclose Notes: Writer's credit given in "Al Feldstein: The Mad Life ..." (2013)
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Interview with Al Feldstein

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The Woman Who Loved Life

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Character(s): Ed Calhoun (Policeman, Midge's husband); unnamed warehouse guard (death); Midge Calhoun (villain, death); Pete Halladay (villain, death)
First Line: Being a policeman's wife wasn't Midge Calhon's idea of getting what she wanted from life.
Synopsis: Bored with her daily routine, Midge wanted furs, jewels and nice clothes, and when offered the opportunity, she went for it with strong greedy fingers, using robbery, murder and mayhem. Getting tips from her policeman-husband in order to tip off gang members where to pull jobs, and taking on a partner, Pete Halladay, all seems great until her husband begins to suspect his wife is behind the recent robberies. Then her partner drills her husband and he ends up in a coma, leading to an unexpected conclusion.
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Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Craig essentially repeated "Little Miss Mob Marker" from the previous issue, except he improved on the plot by adding a few effective elements.
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The Crusher!

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First Line: Beginning with issue #5...
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Too Big for the Job!

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Money-Hungry

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First Line: Nancy Burton's wild craving for money...
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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