Crime Comics Confidential The Best Golden Age Crime Comics

Relive the days when gangsters ruled the streets in this gripping collection of notorious pre-Code crime comics! True life criminals Al Capone, Legs Diamond, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and John Dillinger are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze. These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits, living outside the law until getting their just deserts in the end. Features masterful creators Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Fred Guardineer, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Bernie Krigstein, Mort Meskin, Bob Powell, John Prentice, Mike Sekowsky, Leonard Starr, Marvin Stein, Alex Toth, and many others. These Senate-investigated stories are fully restored--over 20 full-comic stories in all! There are over 200 pages of action-packed comics plus an in-depth essay by editor and designer Steven Brower. Brower's comics-related books include From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin and Golden Age Western Comics.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT #56Crime comic known for the popular comic artists Lev Gleason, Bob Wood, Charles Biro, Fred Guardineer and more... During the Golden Age of comics the plots and characters were as close to anything-goes as the comics-buying public would allow. Evil was rampant and good was....well, relative at times. The stories were always exciting and colorful, however, and now you can re-live (or, enjoy for the first time) these great adventures from two generations ago! You can enjoy again - or for the first time -CRIME AND PUNISHMENT #56 with this public domain reprint from GOLDEN AGE REPRINTS. Check out the full line - new titles every week! The classic comic reprints from GOLDEN AGE REPRINTS and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. For our complete classic comics library catalog contact [email protected] OR VISIT OUR WEB STORE AT www.goldenagereprints.com

CRIME ON THE RUN(Approved Comics #8) Contains Art From the popular golden age greats; Leonard Starr, George Olesen, Bob Powell and more... Now you can enjoy again - or, for the first time - these great comics from many decades ago. This book contains the full issue of CRIME ON THE RUN, not seen in print for over 60 years! Be sure to check out the full line of public domain comic reprints from Golden Age Reprints! The classic comic reprints from GOLDEN AGE REPRINTS and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. For our complete classic comics library catalog contact [email protected] OR VISIT OUR WEB STORE AT www.goldenagereprints.com

Crime Reporter was published from August 1948 - October 1948 running for three issues (#1-#3). The covers of issues #2 and #3 were drawn by Matt Baker, famous for his 'Good Girl Art'.You can enjoy again - or for the first time - Crime Reporter #1 with this public domain reprint from UP History and Hobby. Check out the full line - new titles every week! The comic reprints from UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available.

Velda: Girl Detective is a multileveled parody of not only the more lurid of the 1950s crime comics but of comic collecting itself. The book is also more than a passing homage to the noir films and hard-boiled detective school of writing of the 1950s. Purporting to be an anthology of all the issues of a little-known golden age comic, it includes a history of the creation of the comic, an interview with its creator and an episode list of the "Girl Detective" TV show as well as special features including a Velda paper doll kit and the complete 1952 Velda pinup calendar. The comics also include vintage ads as well as featurettes such as "Hawkshaw Hawk, Bird Detective" and "Neolithica: Girl of the Pleistocene." Velda has also been featured in a series of radio plays broadcast by NPR ---as well as a full-length stage play that was produced a few years ago.

THE PERFECT CRIME #9World War II was just starting in Europe, and the comic book as we know it was just a toddler. This was the beginning of the Golden Age of comics! Now you can enjoy again (or for the first time) the exciting stories and colorful characters of this by-gone era. This book contains the entire issue THE PERFECT CRIME #9, not seen in print for two generations! Now you can with this public domain reprint from Golden Age Reprints. Check out the full line - new titles every week! The classic comic reprints from GOLDEN AGE REPRINTS and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. For our complete classic comics library catalog contact [email protected] OR VISIT OUR WEB STORE AT www.goldenagereprints.com

True Crime Comics #2Now you can re-live (or, enjoy for the first time) these great adventures from generations past, with Golden Age Reprints line of comic reprints. The comic reprints from Golden Age Reprints and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available.

FAMOUS CRIMES #1Including: Alvin Karpis: Old Creepy; The Bloodless Corpse; Phantom Lady; A True Crime Story; Sadie Krum: Girl Bandit; Blue Beetle; A True Crime Case; The Case of the Lethal Christmas Package; The Case of the Homicidal Hit-Runner of Donelson, Tennessee; Killers at Large; Murder Will Not Sink.Now you can enjoy again or for the first time the colorful characters and exciting stories of that era with this great golden age comic reprint FAMOUS CRIMES #1.The classic comic reprints from GOLDEN AGE REPRINTS and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. For our complete classic comics library catalog contact [email protected] OR VISIT OUR WEB STORE AT www.goldenagereprints.com