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The Informer #5

Dec 1954 · Sterling · 0.10 USD
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The issue contains at least two stories from police files. "The Cop" follows officer Kenny Cogan on his beat through his neighborhood as he encounters a dangerous situation. "The Case of the Waterfront Mob" features Detective Sergeant Mark Fabian investigating mob activity at the docks, where longshoremen become entangled with racketeers; the story includes a scene where children nearly drown in the river and a subsequent confrontation between law enforcement and the criminal element. A third story involves a railroad setting where injured men are taken to a hospital and a legal dispute emerges regarding compensation.

Contains 4 stories
Death Travels North!
7 pp

Detective Sergeant Mark Fabian and his partner Pat Polo pursue a mysterious fugitive named Mike Reeves to a rooming house near the Brooklyn Bridge after an anonymous tipster warns that Reeves is dangerous and wanted by Miami police. When Reeves bolts and nearly gets hit by a subway train, the detectives bring him in for questioning—but he refuses to speak, remaining eerily silent even as a burning cigarette scorches his fingers unnoticed. As the truth about Reeves emerges, the entire precinct is gripped by fear of an invisible threat they never saw coming.

A Day's Work
6 pp

Kenny Cogan walks the beat in his old neighborhood as more than just a cop—he's a symbol of law and order, flesh and blood caught between duty and the weight of his badge. When a late-night robbery at a local deli turns violent, Cogan finds himself fighting for his own life and for those who depend on him, setting him on a relentless path to bring the thugs responsible to justice. It's just another day's work for a cop who refuses to let his community down.

The Case of the Waterfront Mob
6 pp

Detective Sergeant Mark Fabian arrives at the waterfront to investigate the death of a longshoreman named Larry Burns, whose widow reveals he was killed by the mob for breaking their rules and giving work to a blacklisted man. When fear keeps the dock workers silent, Fabian goes undercover as a day laborer to get inside the operation and uncover who's really pulling the strings. The case plunges him into a dangerous web of racketeering and corruption that runs deep through the piers.

Oh, My Aching Back
5.5 pp

Luke the Spook, a down-on-his-luck con artist, hatches an elaborate scheme in East Hominy, Kentucky—he'll fake a crippling back injury from a train accident to squeeze a fortune out of the railroad in a lawsuit. But when a fortune teller tells him he must perform a suspicious midnight ritual to win the case, Luke's own superstitious nature becomes his worst enemy.

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Raw (Good) $31
CGC 9.8 $3,891*
CGC 9.6 $2,442*
CGC 9.4 $1,567*
CGC 9.2 $1,005*
CGC 9.0 $701*
CGC 8.5 $493*
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CGC 8.0 $387
CGC 7.5 $304*
CGC 7.0 $254*
CGC 6.5 $118*
CGC 6.0 $100*
CGC 5.5 $84*
CGC 5.0 $79*
CGC 4.5 $67*
CGC 4.0 $59*
CGC 3.5 $53*
CGC 3.0 $46*
CGC 2.5 $38*
CGC 2.0 $33*
CGC 1.5 $25*
CGC 1.0 $21*
CGC 0.5 $20*
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Full credits

letterer Herb Field
cover pencils Mike Sekowsky

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