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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: Supercomicman on July 16, 2013, 03:30:15 PM

Title: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Supercomicman on July 16, 2013, 03:30:15 PM

In the mid fifties I read a British reprint comic called GUILTY ( or something like that ) and it had a true story about corrupt dockers and unions. One guy stood up to them and he was slashed with bailing hooks. This horrified me and I asked my father if this sort of thing actually happened. He rather kindly told me that it was only a comic and not to worry about it. He put the comic in the dustbin and that was that. It didn't deter me from reading or collecting comics and over the years I've amassed a few thousand of them. Now to the point of this post. I'd love to find this story and read it as an adult to see what upset me so all those years ago. Can anybody help, please.

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Yoc on July 16, 2013, 07:00:35 PM

Hi Super,
It might have been a reprint of the Prize title - Justice Traps the Guilty -

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=250 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=250)

Good luck on your quest!
-Yoc

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Supercomicman on July 17, 2013, 08:11:59 AM

Thanks Yoc
I've read all JTTG that have been uploaded and haven't found it. Hopefully it will be in a future upload. I will keep searching. I just wondered if anybody else remembers reading it.

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: movielover on July 17, 2013, 08:30:34 AM

Might try Wanted comics, seem to recall editing something like that

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=937

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Supercomicman on July 18, 2013, 10:27:05 AM

Cheers Movielover
I'll get on to them straight away.....

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: tilliban on September 20, 2013, 09:42:57 AM

Ha! Think I found it:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #28
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=17254
"When The Showdown Came"
I knew I had seen this browsing through crime books.

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Supercomicman on September 30, 2013, 01:32:23 AM

Cheers tilliban,
         After all these years I finally got to read the entire story. I have to admit I still found page 2 emotional. (Probably because it brought back memories of so long ago and of my loving father). The images in my brain were reasonably accurate but As a child the scene looked worse. In black and white all the black lines looked like blood whereas the actual Color used on panel 3 page 2 made this much less of an issue.
         It has been a unique experience for me to revisit my feelings as a child and compare them to my adults perception. For this I thank you.
         Oh! Well! Now back to some less heavy superhero fare.

Title: Re: Please help me find an old story.....
Post by: Yoc on September 30, 2013, 01:42:03 PM

Thanks for sharing your experience SCM.
Very touching stuff.