Digital Comic Museum - Detective Picture Stories 004


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Username:	The Ghost Man
Comment:	This is a great, rare Platinum-Age treat! Is that really Will Eisner drawing the 'Muss 'Em Up' story? It's not even recognizable to the widely known style in later years. I love seeing these raw beginnings though, it gives a lot of hope and inspiration to developing artists.

Issue: #4
Published: March 1937, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Pre-Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Data taken from Howard Keltner's Golden Age index and the existing GCD index.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	The Case of the 4 Haircuts
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (7 pages)	Fifty Dollar Ride
Synopsis:	A kid agrees to drive a car to Chesterton, then discovers a dead gangster in the trunk. He informs the police and they prepare an ambush to catch the other gangsters.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Toni Blossi (dead Gangster) Joe Padroni

Comic Story (7 pages)	Muss 'Em Up
Featuring:	Hammer Donovan
Synopsis:	Hammer Donovan is called back onto the Police force, with no legal limitations, to track down a notorious killer and his gang that have been bumping off cops, and whose identity and whereabouts are being protected by the underworld.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Hammer Donovan Captain Spencer Fen Soo (Donovan's Servant) Mike Moarelli (villain) Tony (villain, Death) Curley [aka As Curly] (villain, Death) Hophead Harry (villain)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Stand-In Girl
Synopsis:	Dot is hired to replace a society girl, Jane Dexter.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Dot Brown Tony Whitey Powell Mrs. Dexter James P. Dexter Billings Pat O'Day

Comic Story (7 pages)	Kidnapped
Synopsis:	Football player Tom Collins is kidnapped by Spike and Rose to affect the outcome of a match, but Tom feigns illness. When Spike and Rose try to drive him to a hospital Tom crashes their car, informs on them to a nearby policeman, then gets to the match in time to win the game.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Tom Collins (football Player) Spike (gangster) Rose (gun Moll)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Kane & Abel Private Detectives
Synopsis:	After millionaire Stuart is poisoned, Kane and Abel solve the crime, proving it was the man's nephew.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Kane Abel Stuart (dies) Parker (butler) Evelyn Latimer (actress)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Case of the Four Haircuts
Synopsis:	A con man cheats a barber out of four haircuts.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Clem Bowers Donovan Angelo Willie Lena J. H. Worthington Kreisler

Comic Story (7 pages)	Enemy Spy
Featuring:	Inspector Darrin
Synopsis:	Inspector Darrin has to stop a plot by the mastermind known as the Brain.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	John Darrin Brixton The Brain Gorilla Rat-Face

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Will of Uncle Dan
Synopsis:	Cousins Banning and Tom head to the bedside of their dying uncle Dan. Banning tries to murder Tom so he can claim the full fortune but Tom survives the attempt, informs the police and arrives in time to keep his uncle from changing the will.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Banning (gangster) Tom (heir) Mr. Clark (Tom's Boss) Captain Bangs (policeman) Mary (wealthy Woman) Dan Darling (dying Man) Karp Lefty

The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.