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War Against Crime #2 (1948) · The Collector

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EC
War Against Crime (1948)
#2

EC#2

War Against Crime

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War Against Crime #2

Publisher: EC
Cover date: July 1948
On sale: May 10, 1948
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Stories

4 titled

1Hank "Two-Gun" Corley!
2The Crystal Ball Killer
3

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Grand Comics Database issue 229850

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John Morlan, always wanting to be in the spotlight, comes out west, wanting to pattern himself after other desperados, killers and robbers so he can be in the spotlight, so gang leader Scar Meldrum accommodates John and teaches him the ropes. Unfortunately for him, John was only a pretend crook who ended up as if he were a real bad man: at the end of a rope!

America's First Crime

4The Saga of Spotlight John

Credits

Pencillers: Lee Ames, Stan Asch, Frank Bolle, Graham Ingels
Inkers: Lee Ames, Stan Asch, Leonard Starr, Graham Ingels
Letterer: Jim Wroten
Cover: Johnny Craig

Editorial and production

Editor: Bill Gaines

Characters

Benedict Arnold
Lightnin' Bill Sutter
Meldrum's gang
Scar Meldrum
Spotlight John Morlan

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