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Title: REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES Nos. 22, 26, 31 and 73 * Lot of Four Comics
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Publisher:Hillman [Indicia: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1947-March, 1952
Description: #22 (Vol. 2, #10): VG (4.0). Mild reading creases to spine, chip and rather sharp crease to top right corner of front cover, sun shadow to back cover. Cream to off-white pages. GPAnalysis: Only one reported sale in any grade: an 8.5 (Promise Collection) sold for $360 in 3/22.

#26 (Vol. 3, #2): Good (2.0). Spine stress, spine roll, top staple rusty, top staple pulled, fox marks, creasing, back cover dampsoiled, shallow edge chips. Cream to off-white pages. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest reported sale is a 7.0 that sold for $120 in 4/21.

#31 (Vol. 3, #7): VG/Fine (5.0). Spine roll, staple rust, a few nicks, corner crease, small shallow chip to back cover. White to off-white pages. GPAnalysis: Only one reported sale in any grade: an 8.0 (Crippen copy) sold for $51 in 6/06.

#73 (Vol. 7, #1): VG+ (4.0). Mild spine stress, small chip to bottom right corner of front cover, 1/2" tear to back cover and last page. Off-white pages. GPAnalysis: Only one reported sale in any grade: a 7.0 sold for $504 in 10/22.

Credits: Covers: Dan Barry?, Dan Zolnerowich, John Prentice? Art: Bernard Sachs, Dan Barry, Carmine Infantino?, George Gregg, Ernie Schroeder?, Charles Raab, Emil Gershwin, Bill Ely, Dick Briefer, Mike Roy.Bastardized Bandits Buy the Farm: Cold-blooded killer, pinkie-ringed like a pimp, peddles a car with a corpse in the trunk to a moneybags mark; machine gun murders; cop-killers; grenade-happy hop-heads; killer's pet parrot turns stool pigeon, testifies against owner in court ("Don't stab me, Hemlein! How could you do it? KWAK!"); cad whips gal with quirt, chucks wine glass at another gal's head; seven perps hanged in single panel; Boss Tweed runs multi-million dollar racket but ends up pennyless in the pokey; syrup jug emptied on man's head; pirate's peg leg has built-in blunderbuss; bastardized Bonnie & Clyde buy the farm in bullet-ridden roadster.______________________________________________________________

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