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[Darwination]

[Susanville]

[Mr.Fantastic]

From March 1951 Amazing Detective Cases. I was hypnotized by the colors on this cover since I first laid eyes on it. This title turned into a suspense/horror title near the end of the run, which I admittedly don't care for as much.  The early issues have some amazing cover art. 

[fifties]

On 2/22/2024 at 1:56 PM, Mr.Fantastic said:

From March 1951 Amazing Detective Cases.

This title turned into a suspense/horror title near the end of the run,  

 

That's what occurred to many crime titles around 1950, and '51, since horror was the new up and coming genre.  EC changed both War Against Crime and Crime Patrol into The Vault of Horror and Tales From The Crypt in '50.  Atlas eventually had somewhere around 13 horror titles, with many morphed from crime and humor books.

[Mr.Fantastic]

On 2/22/2024 at 5:32 PM, fifties said:

That's what occurred to many crime titles around 1950, and '51, since horror was the new up and coming genre.  EC changed both War Against Crime and Crime Patrol into The Vault of Horror and Tales From The Crypt in '50.  Atlas eventually had somewhere around 13 horror titles, with many morphed from crime and humor books.

Yeah, Goodman was all about selling what was "hot" at the time. When he saw EC was doing so well with their horror titles he switched several crime titles over. Ironic since a lot of the Atlas crime had been switched over from other titles earlier. If I remember correctly Crime Cases came from Lil Willie, Crime Must Lose came from Blaze the Wonder Collie, and Justice Comics came from Wacky Duck.

[C. Spaulding]

[fifties]

On 2/22/2024 at 4:01 PM, Mr.Fantastic said:

Yeah, Goodman was all about selling what was "hot" at the time. When he saw EC was doing so well with their horror titles he switched several crime titles over. Ironic since a lot of the Atlas crime had been switched over from other titles earlier. If I remember correctly Crime Cases came from Lil Willie, Crime Must Lose came from Blaze the Wonder Collie, and Justice Comics came from Wacky Duck.

Adventures Into Terror #43 (actually #1) continued the numbering from Joker Comics.

[pmpknface]

[pmpknface]

The whole Suspense run is either crime / horror, but I'll go with this being the most crime-like:

 

[Robot Man]

On 2/22/2024 at 4:03 PM, C. Spaulding said:

I remember finding this panel inside and informing Overstreet back in the late ‘70’s. At the time, Redbeard, Bob Nastasi and I were heavily into SOTI, scouring our books and trading info then sending it to Bob.

[Robot Man]

On 2/23/2024 at 5:45 AM, pmpknface said:

The whole Suspense run is either crime / horror, but I'll go with this being the most crime-like:

 

Yeah, a tough title to file. Is it Horror? Crime?  I just ended up putting in my misc GA boxes…

[Mr.Fantastic]

Received another Amazing Detective today. The guy's red necktie really draws your eyes to the center of the book. 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Also got this nice copy of Crime Exposed.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

And, to finish it off, a nice Promise Pedigree copy..........

 

Edited February 23 by Mr.Fantastic

[fifties]

On 2/23/2024 at 7:30 AM, Robot Man said:

I remember finding this panel inside and informing Overstreet back in the late ‘70’s. At the time, Redbeard, Bob Nastasi and I were heavily into SOTI, scouring our books and trading info then sending it to Bob.

The good Dr. Wertham captioned this panel, "A girl raped and murdered" in his S.O.T.I. slander, even though this was her first appearance in the book, which I know because I happen to have it.

[Darwination]

On 2/23/2024 at 3:11 PM, Mr.Fantastic said:

Received another Amazing Detective today. The guy's red necktie really draws your eyes to the center of the book. 

Sharing title and font design for the word DETECTIVE (for most of the run at least) with one of Goodman's long running True Crime Magazines:

[FoggyNelson]

On 2/23/2024 at 2:13 AM, fifties said:

Adventures Into Terror #43 (actually #1) continued the numbering from Joker Comics.

Nice cover ‼️every inch of it👍

[FoggyNelson]

On 2/23/2024 at 4:15 PM, Mr.Fantastic said:

And, to finish it off, a nice Promise Pedigree copy..........

 

Lot of ladies getting slapped around back in those days 😝

[fifties]

On 2/24/2024 at 6:23 AM, FoggyNelson said:

Lot of ladies getting slapped around back in those days 😝

Or strangled, axed, beheaded. Gotta keep 'em in line somehow.  

[Mr.Fantastic]

Making a dent in the Justice run.  Four more today.

#19 is probably slightly out of my preferred grade range for the title, but I just had to have the red gas pumps.

Edited February 24 by Mr.Fantastic