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Issue: Gangsters and Gunmolls #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1952
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAvon
Brand: A Realistic ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Realistic Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: GANGSTERS AND GUNMOLLS. March 1952-Vol. 1, No. 3. Published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Cover painting from the paperback Flash Casey, Hard-Boiled Detective by George Harmon Coxe, Avon #143. Index created from a scan of the issue at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.
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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
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art taken from Avon Paperback #143, entitled “Flash Casey” by George Harmon Coxe.

Art credit from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948.
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Illustrated Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Marie Swain; Rocky Lewis; John Scalisi; Albert Anselmi; Juanita Perez
First Line: A brutal, hardened criminal...
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Preview of Stories from Gangsters and Gun Molls #3 March 1952 [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four illustrated summaries of the main stories in this issue. Includes the indicia at the bottom of the page. On inside front cover.
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Juanita Perez The Gypsy Killer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Juanita Perez [aka Janet Pollard]; Hutchins; Ed Reilly; Tony Arolla; Officer I.R. Moody
First Line: Gypsy thief, embezzling clerk, dance hall girl...
Synopsis: Gypsy thief, embezzler, dance-hall girl, gun-toting gang lookout, dope pusher, underworld queen -- the activities of this thrill-crazed murderess led her straight to the penitentiary and eventually to -- death! "Juanita Perez -- The Gypsy Killer!" (from Table of Contents)
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Juanita Perez The Gypsy Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Crime Machine #2 published May 1971
as Juanita Perez The Gypsy Killer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: It appears that only the word balloons in the splash panel are hand-lettered.
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Insurance for Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Rocky Lewis; Betty; Anthony Cardell; Hastings; Barton
First Line: Come on, bulls!
Synopsis: Rocky Lewis was a skilled butcher who was out to make a fast buck! he grubbed around until he uncovered a racket that filled his victims with terror and bathed then in blood! "Insurance for Death!" (from Table of Contents)
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Insurance for Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Habit Traps a Killer!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jack Thompson; Chief of Police Wilson; Detective Walker
First Line: The loud bark of his dog...
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Habit Traps a Killer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Crime Machine #2 published May 1971
as Habit Traps a Killer! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The title is written entirely in lower case letters.
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Crime's Homicide Squad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): John Scalisi; Albert Anselmi; O'Banion; Mike Genna; Tony Lombardi; Al Capone
First Line: The bloodiest alliance in the annals of crime...
Synopsis: John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi were Al Capone's trigger-men! Theirs was the bloodiest alliance in the history of crime! So fierce was their appetite for slaughter that the underworld called them -- "Crime's Homicide Squad!" (from Table of Contents)
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Crime's Homicide Squad [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Marie Swain, "Rod-Baby!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Marie Swain; Frank; Harry
First Line: Leading their two-man mob...
Synopsis: A brutal, hardened criminal at the age of eighteen, pretty Marie Swain led her two-man gang on a crime wave all her own! The combination of her innocent face and her itchy trigger finger caused the police to tag her with the label -- "Rod-Baby!" (from Table of Contents page)
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In Content Item: FlagAll True Detective Cases #[nn] published January 1952
as Marie Swan, "Rod Baby" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6

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