Help identify a book?

[iggy]

If anyone has a Golden Age Gerber Cover Guide handy, can you tell me if Murder Incorporated #3 says "The Inside Story of Lucky Luciano and Murder, Inc." on the cover? I just got a copy like that and it has blank inside covers and no indicia (publishing info) inside at all. Where the logo for a publisher should go on the cover it says "Realistic Famous Gangsters".

[szelim]

Can you provide a scan? Neither vol. 1 nor vol. 2 #3 have that caption. Sounds like it may be a foreign book, reprinting the story under its own title.

 

[Jayman]

Don't own a guide but according to the GCD there are two series. One from 1948 and another from 1950 that both include a #3 issue.

Neither one states what you are looking for.

 

[iggy]

Hmmm bizarre- I will scan this issue...

[iggy]

[iggy]

Couldn't find anything in Overstreet.

[szelim]

Famous Gangsters #3

 

[iggy]

(thumbs u Good work, Detective! Thanks very much!

[Jayman]

[iggy]

Killer cover on that 2nd Murder Inc up there!

[szelim]

It's kinda interesting how the publisher listing on the covers of the Famous Gangsters series was done. First issue had the traditional Avon logo, second issue has "Avon Famous Gangsters", and third issue had "Realistic Famous Gangsters". I guess they gave up and renamed the series after that.

 

[Scrooge]

It's kinda interesting how the publisher listing on the covers of the Famous Gangsters series was done. First issue had the traditional Avon logo, second issue has "Avon Famous Gangsters", and third issue had "Realistic Famous Gangsters". I guess they gave up and renamed the series after that.

 

Avon used Realistic as an imprint so they just moved the series from the main house to the imprint in this case.

 

Here's my copy and a scan of the inside front cover that you're missing b/c it's blank. It's likely it's a Canadian version. Does the back cover ads match this US version? -

 

[iggy]

Nice copy! Yes, the ad on the back is the exact same.

[iggy]

OT: At the auction I was at today I saw a great magazine cover of a kid reading a comic book in a barber's chair. The mag was in poor condition so I didn't get it- I see some on ebay in stores & auction... Coronet- April, 1952... worth a look!

[ajaxfarrell]

[iggy]

(thumbs u