Digital Comic Museum - Fight Against Crime 012 (inc) -upgrade2


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A tilliban book and scan.
Issue is missing the (text story) centerfold and first page of third story.

The missing text story has been added from FAC #20 and part of page one from story three are added from an eBay ad as found by tralfaz

If anyone owns this book Please consider scanning the missing pages so we can complete the scan.

18-April-2014 8:53 am	\|
Username:	tilliban
Comment:	This title sometimes featured horror tales, this issue, however, contains only crime stories.
19-February-2021 12:14 am	\|
Username:	lrek
Comment:	From the look of the original scan, the centerfold (pp 17-20) was missing. The text story is pages 18 and 19, and the incomplete splash is page 20. So only page 17 is unaccounted for (possibly an ad) -- although obviously we want the entire centerfold should it become available. Also, we now know the title of the story -- Fires of Death.
19-February-2021 5:48 am	\|
Username:	tralfaz
Comment:	Using GCD I now see that the text story "Smart Cons Don't Lie" was later reprinted in FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #20. So those 2 text pages from that issue could be used to reconstruct that part of this issue #12 in a more readable way. Unfortunately I couldn't find any record on GCD of the story "Fires of Death" being reprinted anywhere, so that we could reconstruct that missing first page.

Issue: #12
Published: March 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (7 pages)	Hollywood Death Trap!
Synopsis:	Hollywood diva Lydia Holmes is blackmailed by a gangster friend from her past. Dan Blakely demands to co-star in her pictures. The movie turns out to be a desaster because of Blakely. Lydia stabs the ham actor to death and drops his body in the ocean. When filming the next movie on Malibu beach, Lydia's boat capzises and the actress drowns, being weighed down by the corpse of her victim.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (7 pages)	Mountain Murder
Synopsis:	Mountaineer Jack Victor lets his nagging wife Carol drop to her death while climbing Destiny peak. When he makes the tour again with his new love Lynn, Victor perishes in the same spot Carol died.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Crime

Text Story (2 pages)	Smart Cons Don't Talk
Credits:	Script: Ellen Lynn (credited) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (6 pages)	Fires of Death
Synopsis:	Two murderers try to shake the police by mingling with the audience of a carnival. They manage to escape by kidnapping the fortune teller Alia. Before he's killed, he predicts death by fire for the gangsters. The first one burns to death in bed while smoking, the second one is run over by a fire truck.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Big Dope
Synopsis:	Dr. Henry Faber sees to the fact that his patients get addicted to morphine - so he can sell them the drug. When Faber is involved in a train wreck and lies dying, he can't be helped because the morphine supply has been used up by his patients.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Crime

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