All True Crime Cases Comics #31

Marvel Comics

United States

Published
January 1949
Page count
52
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Golden Age size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/173488

Credits

Editing
Stan Lee, Editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled Cover, 1 page

"Won't they ever learn? This makes our 3rd easy victim today!"

Featuring

Genre
Crime

Credits

Art
, line art
Colours
Stan Goldberg , colourist
Text
, letterer

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Printed in
All True Crime Cases Comics (Bell Features, 1948 series) #31
Show/hide 1. Strange Reunion! Comic story, 11 pages

Featuring

Code
3933

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Mike Becker, line art
 
, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

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Also printed
Australia
Crime-Busters (Transport, 1953? series) #4 ([October 1952?])
Strange Reunion
Show/hide 2. Untitled (Wanted by the F.B.I.) Public service announcement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Wanted by the F.B.I.

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 3. The Prison of the Mind! Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Code
3993

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 4. Time to Kill Text story, 2 pages

Featuring

Code
SL-3730

Credits

Writing
, author
Text
, typeset
Show/hide 5. The Invisible Clue! Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Code
3932

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Frank Sieminsky, penciller
 
, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Crime-Busters (Transport, 1953? series) #6 ([December 1952?])
The Invisible Clue
Show/hide 6. Clue by Video! (Let's Play Detective) Comic story, 2 pages

Featuring

Feature
Let's Play Detective
Code
4445

Credits

Writing
Al Bellman, scripter [as Allen Bellman]
Art
Al Bellman, line art [as Allen Bellman]
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 7. The Case of the Outlaw in Black! Comic story, 9 pages

Featuring

Code
3833

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Gene Colan, penciller
 
, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Notes

Colan pencil credit per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/08/gene-colan-1926-2011-timely-years.html.

Ger Apeldoorn originally credited Syd Shores.

Possible Alascia inks per Nick Caputo, although he suspects various hands were involved. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. questions any Syd Shores involvement.


Notes

Index updated with information from Tom Lammers and atlastales.com.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 2, Periodicals, 1948, p. 146, Copyright number: B163476.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 103899

Entry created

  • 28/09/2022

Cover added

  • 28/09/2022

Index completed

  • 28/09/2022