comicbooks.com Join Free
Home › Authentic Police Cases › #20 › Read

★ comicbooks.com Reading Room

Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952)

St. John · 1952 · 37 pages

Free to read · restored edition by comicbooks.com · Issue details →

Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 1 of 37
1 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 2 of 37
2 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 3 of 37
3 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 4 of 37
4 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 5 of 37
5 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 6 of 37
6 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 7 of 37
7 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 8 of 37
8 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 9 of 37
9 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 10 of 37
10 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 11 of 37
11 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 12 of 37
12 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 13 of 37
13 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 14 of 37
14 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 15 of 37
15 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 16 of 37
16 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 17 of 37
17 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 18 of 37
18 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 19 of 37
19 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 20 of 37
20 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 21 of 37
21 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 22 of 37
22 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 23 of 37
23 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 24 of 37
24 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 25 of 37
25 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 26 of 37
26 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 27 of 37
27 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 28 of 37
28 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 29 of 37
29 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 30 of 37
30 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 31 of 37
31 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 32 of 37
32 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 33 of 37
33 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 34 of 37
34 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 35 of 37
35 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 36 of 37
36 / 37
Authentic Police Cases #20 (1952) — page 37 of 37
37 / 37
ContinueAuthentic Police Cases #21 →
Contains 5 stories
Hijack
8 pp · Crime
Mac Jones (gang boss)MaxBlackie Roberts (gangster)Frank Carson (truck dispatcher)

In 1952, a gang led by Mac Jones orchestrates a string of truck hijackings, aided by inside information from a desperate dispatcher they've coerced into cooperation—but their greed and a moment of carelessness during one job draws the attention of the F.B.I. As federal agents close in on the operation, the criminals find their perfect racket unraveling faster than they expected. Will their combination of cunning and muscle be enough to stay ahead of the law?

The Criminal's Law of Averages
8 pp · crime
Longie Proctor (small-time hood who rose to the top)

When small-time hood Longie Proctor seizes his chance to rise to the top of the underworld during the chaos of 1950's crime hearings, he launches a violent campaign to muscle in on the rackets of the established bosses. But as Longie climbs higher, the evidence from his crimes—including a crucial topcoat left behind—begins to pile up against him, and Special Prosecutor Jim Cosgrove closes in with an ironclad case. Longie's own ruthlessness may become the trap that finally catches him.

Murder Masks a Black Market
7 pp · Crime
Bruno Marin (sinister black-marketeer, and murderer)

When a sinister black-marketeer named Bruno Marin murders a steel mill representative to protect his illegal operation, Detective Wayne Mayo's investigation into an apparent shakedown victim uncovers a chilling pattern of deaths—each carefully disguised as accident or natural causes. As Mayo traces the connections between multiple killings and Marin's seemingly legitimate business front, a trivial clue from the criminal underworld begins to unravel a scheme that's funneled millions in scarce wartime steel onto the black market. This authentic 1952 case shows how even the most calculated killer can slip up when the wrong person starts asking the right questions.

The Camouflage Killers
4 pp · crime
Wayne Douglas (film director)Linda Dailey (screen star)

A wave of hotel burglaries targeting wealthy celebrities sweeps New York in the fall of 1951, leaving detectives baffled—until film director Wayne Douglas and screen star Linda Dailey return to their suite to find a gun-wielding intruder waiting in the shadows. Detectives Adrian Dowling and Clem Hurley take the case and begin piecing together clues from the crime scene and the victims' descriptions, following a trail that leads them closer to the phantom thieves than anyone expected.

Everglades Manhunt
5 pp · crime
DonCharlie

A trio of bandits prowl the Florida waterways, robbing luxury yachts in broad daylight and using cunning tactics to cover their tracks—until a hidden ship-to-shore radio alerts police to their latest strike. When Don and his uncle Charlie's quick thinking provides investigators with a crucial clue, Detective Bert Larkin must track the suspects through the swamps and into the city before they vanish for good.

Restored edition © comicbooks.com. Our digitization, remastering, and presentation are our own work.

See something wrong with this issue? Report it.