Digital Comic Museum - Boy Comics 072 (paper)


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Issue: #72
Published: December 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Later Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Crimebuster
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Biro (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Crimebuster Iron Jaw

Comic Story (10 pages)	Iron Jaw Meets His Master
Featuring:	Crimebuster
Synopsis:	The Chancellor sends for Iron Jaw, who is thought dead by the world, to have him take an atomic bomb to blow up the US atomic bomb supply. Crimebuster stumbles onto their rendezvous point and is captured, but manages to escape and use their own atomic bomb against them.
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro (credited) \| Pencils: William Overgard (signed) \| Inks: William Overgard (signed)
Characters:	Crimebuster Iron Jaw (villain) The Chancellor Captain Petrokin Squeeks Colonel Phelps Captain Checkobok

Comic Story (8 pages)	Boomerang of Destruction
Featuring:	Crimebuster
Synopsis:	Somehow the ship Iron Jaw is on board survives the atomic explosion, and he reaches New York in a small boat. He tries to blow up the Statue of Liberty but ends up in the water where, almost drowned, he is captured by Crimebuster.
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro (credited) \| Pencils: Hy Mankin (signed) \| Inks: Hy Mankin (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Crimebuster Iron Jaw (villain) Squeeks

Text Story (2 pages)	Sven's Vengeance
Featuring:	Little Wise Guys
Synopsis:	Ski champion Sven Svenson is in town to work at the local ski slopes, and he takes a bed in the Little Wise Guys' barn in exchange for giving them ski lessons. Scarecrow loves playing jokes on him, but Sven gets the last laugh.
Credits:	Pencils: William Overgard (signed) \| Inks: William Overgard (signed) \| Letters: typeset
Characters:	Sven Svenson Slugger Jock Scarecrow Curly

Comic Story (8 pages)	Old Dog, New Tricks
Featuring:	Crimebuster
Synopsis:	Iron Jaw is found not guilty of his crimes on the basis of insanity, due to the testimony of respected psychiatrist Dr. Manners. Manners treats him at the State Hospital For the Criminally Insane, and announces that he has cured him. Loover goes undercover as a captured spy to test Iron Jaw, but Iron Jaw sees through his disguise and pretends to be reformed. Even though Loover is convinced, Crimebuster is not, so he goes to check on Dr. Manners, learns that he is an enemy agent, and then recaptures Iron Jaw.
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro (credited) \| Pencils: Charles Biro \| Inks: Charles Biro
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Crimebuster Iron Jaw (villain) District Attorney J.E. Loover Squeeks Dr. Manners Dr. Scott

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