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Issue: War Against Crime! #5
Publication Date: February 1949
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Issues: #5 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/15/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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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 ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime! #5 published March 1949
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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If You Can Whistle

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hopkinson Harmonica Co.
Character(s): Jean; unnamed man
First Line: Learn to play in a day or it costs you nothing!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover mail order ad for a harmonica and instruction book from Hopkinson Harmonica Co., Dept. 129, 1101 N. Paulina St., Chicago 22, Illinois.
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Little Miss Mob Marker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Thommy Burns, in his hardcover October 2019 volume "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", published by Fantagraphics Books, mentions that by this time in Craig's career, Craig was scripting almost all the stuff he was illustrating.

Script credit by Thommy Burns, added by Craig Delich.
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Curse of the Pharaoh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
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Pages: 8
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Sure-Fire Winners!

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First Line: Look for them at your favorite newsstand!
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Disclose Notes: House ad showing the covers of Moon Girl #5, War Against Crime #5, Gunfighter #7, Crime Patrol #10, and Saddle Justice #4.
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Three Time Loser

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
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Pages: 2
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The Law's Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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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In Content Item: FlagWar Against Crime #5 published August 2000
as The Law's Revenge! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer's credit given in "Al Feldstein: The Mad Life ..." (2013)
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (cover reproductions)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mail order ad from Educational Comics, Inc. for their Picture Story titles.
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Most Amazingly Convenient Pocket Lighter

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Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Henry Senne and Company
First Line: Here's the snappiest, most complete lighter combination you've ever seen!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mail order ad for a $1.98 lighter from Henry Senne and Company, Dept. 588-B, 1101 N. Paulina St., Chicago 22, Illinois.
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The Most Amazing Factory-To-You Introductory Offer

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Feature(s): M. P. K. Company
First Line: New automatic machinery inventions and manufacturing methods now...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover mail order ad for a $1.69 pen and pencil set from M. P. K. Company, Dept. 588-B, 179 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois.
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And to Think They Used to Call Me Skinny!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: People used to laugh at my skinny, 97 lb. body.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover mail order ad from Charles Atlas, Dept. 164P, 115 East 23rd Street, New York 10, New York.

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