Digital Comic Museum - Headline Comics 070 -JVJ


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Volume: #10, Issue: #4 (70)
Published: March-April 1955, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	The Roller Derby Raceteers
Credits:	Pencils: Marvin Stein \| Inks: Marvin Stein \| Letters: Ben Oda
Genre:	Detective-mystery Sports

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Roller Derby Racketeers
Synopsis:	Gamblers fix roller derby contests by having the favored team lose.
Credits:	Pencils: Marvin Stein \| Inks: Marvin Stein
Genre:	Detective-mystery Sports

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Closeups
Synopsis:	Five short articles concerning various aspects of crimes and police work.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (5 pages)	Smart Guy
Synopsis:	A mentally-deficient man gets in a street brawl and is jailed. While in jail, a small-time hood uses him to escape and forces him to help him commit robberies.

Text Story (1 page)	Matchbook
Synopsis:	Article on how a matchbook found in a comic book helped track down a man who committed a murder in New Mexico.
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	Face of Death
Synopsis:	Arthur Duneen, a master of disguise, uses his talents to commit crimes in the city. When the heat is on, he and an accomplice flee to Nevada, but find the police still on their trail. In a calculated move, Duneen assumes the guise of a supposed prospector, and unexpectantly meets his end.
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Meskin \| Inks: George Roussos
Genre:	Non-fiction Crime
Characters:	Lieutenant Cooper (death) Un-named Jewelry Store Employee (death) Brad Aken (villain, Prospector, Death) Arthur Duneen [aka Phil Anderson Aka Brad Aken] (villain, Actor, Death) Barton [aka Joe Smith] (villain, Duneen's Partner/valet, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Flames of Destruction!
Synopsis:	A stockbroker smuggles drugs as a sideline to get money to impress a woman. He gets caught and the woman marries his assistant. The man breaks out of prison and gets revenge on the pair, but is trapped and killed himself.
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Meskin \| Inks: Mort Meskin ?; George Roussos ?
Genre:	Non-fiction Crime
Characters:	Dave Marshall (newspaper Reporter, Clyde's Brother) Un-named Doctor Nicky (death) Kathy (Nicky's Wife, Death) Sanders (Policeman) Clyde Marshall (villain, Drug Racketeer, Death)

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