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Title: POLICE AGAINST CRIME Nos. 1-5 * Lot of Four Comics
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Publisher:Premier [Indicia: Premier Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: 1954
Description:

#1: Fair/Good (1.5). Spine stress, center crease, book bent, a few chips, some creasing, TAPE and COLOR TOUCH to top edge of front cover, dampsoiling to covers and pages. Cream to light tan pages.

#2: VG (4.0). Spine stress, small nick to top spine, small chip to front cover at bottom spine, a few other tiny chips, 1/2" creased tear to top edge of front cover, faint center crease to front cover, a few soil spots to margin of 1st and last pages. Off-white pages, cream edges.

#3: VG- (3.5). Spine stressed and slightly rolled, top spine nicked, small chip to front cover at bottom spine, center crease, nicks and short tears to edges, flecks of staple rust, bottom staple a bit pulled. Off-white pages.

#4: VG/Fine (5.0). Light spine stress, fine creases and rubs to edges and corners, bottom staple very slightly pulled, otherwise a crisp and clean copy. White to off-white pages.

#5: VG- (3.5). Spine stressed and abraded, a few short splits to spine, small chip to front cover at bottom spine, small chip to top right corner of front cover, edge nicks, scattered foxing, small indistinct distributor's rubberstamp to back cover. Off-white pages.

Covers: Hy Fleishman, uncredited others. Art: Hy Fleishman, A.C. Hollingsworth, Jay Disbrow, uncredited others.

Shootings, stabbings, acid-in-face panel, man buried alive, multiple women killed by "The Ripper," people blown up by bombs, cop embraces a sexy brunette in one panel and blasts her full of hot lead in the next, psycho killer poses his victims in crucified position. Overstreet says of #1: "Extreme violence (man's face slashed with knife)."

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