Gangsters and Gunmolls #3 Values

Publisher: Avon, 1952

About Gangsters and Gunmolls #3

Painted cover. Marijuana mentioned. Used in Parade of Pleasure.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: ? (painted)

Inks: ? (painted)

Colors: ? (painted)

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Juanita Perez The Gypsy Killer!

Synopsis: Gypsy thief, embezzler, dance-hall girl, gun-toting gang lookout, dope pusher, underworld queen -- the activities of this thrill-crazed murderess led her straight to the penitentiary and eventually to -- death! "Juanita Perez -- The Gypsy Killer!" (from Table of Contents)

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Gerald McCann ?

Inks: Vince Alascia

Letters: ?; typeset

Reprints: All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] (1952), | The Crime Machine (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971)

Notes: It appears that only the word balloons in the splash panel are hand-lettered.

Title: Insurance for Death!

Synopsis: Rocky Lewis was a skilled butcher who was out to make a fast buck! he grubbed around until he uncovered a racket that filled his victims with terror and bathed then in blood! "Insurance for Death!" (from Table of Contents)

Pages: 7.000

Inks: Vince Alascia

Letters: typeset

Reprints: All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] (1952)

Title: Habit Traps a Killer!

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Reprints: The Crime Machine (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971), | All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] (1952), | All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #4 (August-September 1954)

Notes: The title is written entirely in lower case letters.

Title: Crime's Homicide Squad!

Synopsis: John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi were Al Capone's trigger-men! Theirs was the bloodiest alliance in the history of crime! So fierce was their appetite for slaughter that the underworld called them -- "Crime's Homicide Squad!" (from Table of Contents)

Pages: 6.000

Inks: Vince Alascia

Reprints: All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] (1952)

Title: Marie Swain, "Rod-Baby!"

Synopsis: A brutal, hardened criminal at the age of eighteen, pretty Marie Swain led her two-man gang on a crime wave all her own! The combination of her innocent face and her itchy trigger finger caused the police to tag her with the label -- "Rod-Baby!" (from Table of Contents page)

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: John Rosenberger

Inks: Vince Alascia

Reprints: All True Detective Cases (Avon, 1952 series) #[nn] (1952)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9

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