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Issue: Gangsters Can't Win #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1948
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Issues: #5 of 9 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagD.S. Publishing
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Indicia Publisher: D.S. Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York; Richard Davis, President; V. C. Albus, Vice-President; ANC distribution; cover blurb says "True stories from the archives of crime"; indicia says, "Because innocent people might be involved, the names of some of the characters in this true magazine are fictitious. If the name of any living person or institution is used, it is a coincidence."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: crime
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First Line: It's easy! Earn these premiums or cash
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; Sydnie Nathan Industrial Trust Building, Wilmington 7, Delaware.

Earn premiums by selling double-edge razor blades.
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Dead Men Don't Drown

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Johnny Talbot; Betty Kenton; Bill Manley; Paul Wayne; Inspector Dan Foster
Synopsis: The night before a big yacht race, Paul Wayne was murdered. Inspector Dan Foster solved the case with evidence from a forged suicide note found on the body.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Subtitled "How a Suicide Note Trapped its Author.

Art ID per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Full name per Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Signed with S in a rounded square in the splash panel.
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Character(s): George F. Jowett; Joe
First Line: Let's go, pal! I'll prove I can make you an "all-around" he-man
Synopsis: Joe becomes a winner after taking the Jowett bodybuilding system.
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Disclose Notes: Jowett Institute of Physical Culture, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Diamonds

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Mrs. Van Upgraff; Brenda Van Upgraff [daughter]; Walter Van Upgraff [stepson]; Alice Flint [secretary]; "Pierre Ronsard" [fake artist]; Lieutenant Tim Allen
Synopsis: Valuable diamonds and newly valuable gold mine stock are stolen from the safe of formerly wealthy widow, Mrs. Van Upgraff. Stepson Walter Van Upgraff is convicted of the crime, but Lieutenant Tim Allen exonerates him.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Second mention of mint juleps in the book. Pencil credit per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Frank Motler previously credited Al Cammarata. Splash panel is signed CAMY.
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The P.I. and.. the Clocks!

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Inspector H. J. Morgan; James Harvey; Charles Rogers; Valerie Kirk; John Rogers
Synopsis: Postal Inspector H. J. Morgan captures clock repairman/extortionist John Rogers based on a chipped 'M' on his typewriter.
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Disclose Notes: Ingels pencils per Frank Motler.
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Short Vacation

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Moxie Markle; Pop Collins
Synopsis: Pop Collins accidentally captures fugitive killer Moxie Markle, who is boarding at his house.
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Trail of Terror

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Sky Sheriff
Character(s): Tenny; Loop; Killer Madden; Breeze Lawson; Tim Timmins; Laura Timmins
Synopsis: Escaped killer Madden kidnaps Laura Timmins. Sky Sheriff Breeze finds them and captures Madden.
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Beauty and the Book

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Writer(s): Bud Willard (signed)
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Genres: crime
Character(s): Inspector Moore; Mr. Perkins; Eddie Calvin; Richard Barnell; Corky Tobin; Clarence Barkley
Synopsis: A rare book containing a valuable map, donated by Clarence Barkey, is stolen from the library. Inspector Moore deduces that shady businessman Eddie Calvin's secretary, Corky Tobin, is the crook.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Subtitled "How Did Murder Trap a Book Lover?"
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The Mystery of the Speaking Alibi

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Veno the Ventriloquist; Zorra [his wife and assistant]; Doctor [Zorra's brother]
Synopsis: Zorra dies during an emergency operation by her brother. Her husband Veno kills the doctor and tries to make it look like a suicide.
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Disclose Notes: Unknown artist identified as "Puppetface" per Jim Vadeboncoeur via Steven Rowe.
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Jailbreak

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Warden John Crane; Trimble; Grant; Selby; Mac; Pete; Tom Black [escaped prisoners]
Synopsis: Six murderers escape from prison. Three are captured by an old farm couple, two spotted by police while lighting a cigarette in a trailer, one by allowing a woman to call a doctor for her sick baby.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe.
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First Line: Loads of fun for dad and son!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for flexible shaft tools.

Foredom Electric Co., 27 Park Place, New York.
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First Line: Men! Don't stay fat!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Protam diet plan.

Associated Nutrition Products, Inc., 150 Nassau Street, New York.
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First Line: Jet rocket racer car
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First Line: Now you can have daring new look beauty with all-in-one Triolette
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Disclose Notes: Triolette from Wilco Co.

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