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Crime Must Lose! 5
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Current market pricing for Crime Must Lose! #5 shows a latest raw sale of VG 4.0 sold for $99.95.
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- Cover Date
- February 1951
- Sighted Date Stamp
-
11-16
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Title
- Crime Must Lose
- Indicia Publisher
- Sports Action, Inc.
- Cover Titles
- Tough Guy!
Fall Guy!
The Fake! - Cover Credits
-
Carl Burgos pencils guess
- Contributions
-
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
Crime Must Lose! #5 was published by Sports Action, Inc. in February 1951. It is part of the Crime Must Lose! series, which ran from October 1950 to April 1952.
Cover credits include Carl Burgos.
Atlas Tales indexes 6 stories for this issue, including "Pretty Boy Floyd." Indexed story credits include Mike Sekowsky and Pierce Rice, among others. The current cover scan may need replacement.
Stories
Pretty Boy Floyd
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
End of the Road
Tom Lammers: Story Information
The World's Greatest ... Fraud
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
The Classroom Secret
Tom Lammers: Story Information
The Two Mistakes
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Fall-Guy
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
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