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Issue: Famous Gangsters #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1951
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAvon
Brand: An Avon Comic
Indicia Publisher: Avon Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sol Cohen
Disclose Notes: Actual brand appears to be Avon Famous Gangsters.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Wally Wood
Inker(s): Wally Wood
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sid Check (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: Illustrated table of contents
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inner front cover
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Dillinger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Becker (signed)
Inker(s): Mike Becker (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Machine Gun Kelly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Starr
Inker(s): Leonard Starr
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Waxie Gordon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Becker (signed)
Inker(s): Rocke Mastroserio (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #3 published June 1954
as Waxie Gordon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Crime Machine #2 published May 1971
as Waxie Gordon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPublic Enemies #2 published December 1989
as Waxie Gordon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Mystery of Suite No. 13!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walter T. Johnson
Inker(s): Walter T. Johnson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Mike Strong
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagThe Saint #7 published January 1949as modified in All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #3
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credited in original story.

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