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Title: SENSATIONAL POLICE CASES No. 4
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Publisher:Avon [Indicia: Avon Periodicals, Inc.]
Date Published: July-August, 1954
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CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Everett Raymond Kinstler? Art: Bill Molno, uncredited others. CGC Census: Three graded copies, highest being 5.5. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in any grade.

Cops and robbers blast gats, create corpses. Corpses were cash in pre-Code crypt-o-currency, making millions for publishers a dime at a time.

"I feel as though I have been trudging through a sewer. Here is a terrible twilight zone between sanity and madness, an area peopled by monsters, grave robbers, human flesh eaters. Here everything that the human mind has come to venerate and respect through the years of civilization is spat upon and trampled. Here ordinary murder is mild — mix it with sex, sadism, adultery, patricide, matricide, necrophilia, vampirism. Only in the tamest volumes is a character permitted to die by knife or gun. This is the literary offal we have been permitting a few conscienceless publishers to pour into the minds of our children — for profit!" — From a 1954 newspaper article on comics, cited in Martin Barker's A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign. University Press of Mississippi: 1984, p. 33.

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