From the Comic Book Plus website: "CNCC Classic Comics are digitally remastered reprints of Golden Age comics, focusing primarily on the output of Jack Kirby and Most Meskin during their tenure at Prize Comics Group. The restorations begin by chemically removing the color from an original copy of the comic. The line art is then tightened to remove printing imperfections and other errors. Finally, the art is recolored using a palette of solid tones derived from samples of the original coloring."
Currently Comic Book Plus has presented six issues of Classic Comics: Crestwood Love #1 and 8; Young Romance #15 and 16; and Mortified #1 and 2.
Mortified #1 present four stories, all dubbed either "adapted from a TRUE FBI CASE" or "adapted from a TRUE POLICE CASE," that originally appeared in Headline Comics and Justice Traps the Guilty in 1950. the first story has the caveat: "With the exception of George Robert Gabor, all names used in the true story are fictitious"; the remaining three tales have this (very) small print caveat: "In consideration of innocent persons involved, all names in this true story are fictitious." The Prize Comic Group legal department must have been pleased.
From Headline Comics #40, March 1950: The Man of Many Faces. "He had to be stopped. But it wasn't easy because the FBI had to hunt the next man he was going to be for he was George Robert Gabor." Gabor was a master of disguise and a quick change artist. Caught passing bad checks in America, Gabor was arrested, jailed, and then deported to his native Hungary. But America was where the money and the suckers were, so posing as a dissolute American, Gabor convinces the American embassy to ship him back to America, where he restarts his crime spree. Posing as an ambassador's son, he soon finds himself addressing both houses of a state legislature and conning people out of $50,000. He next posed as a titled German industrialist but the FBI got on his trail. He was arrested but managed to escape. For another two years. But the FBI. Does. Not. Give, Up!
From Justice Traps the Guilty #17, August 1950: The Statue Screams! "Why shouldn't it? It's not a thing of clay or stone! This statue is flesh and blood!" It's 1927 and Andre is a mad sculptor, convinced that any great artist can pour his soul into a lifeless statue. Andre's madness drives his model, the lovely Rachel Montour, away. Rachel finally agrees to continue to be Andre's model, but another argument makes her decide to leave. But how can she leave when Andre has strangled her? Andre completes the statue of Rachel and he has not nonly oured his sul into it...he also included her body.
From Headline Comics #43, September 1950: Our Swords Will find You. "Although David Leonards scoffed at the code of honor he was sworn to uphold, he was scared. For the fanatic bandits decreed only one fate for nay man who boke their pact --" Leonards meets secretly with Yuzin ben Ramzah, a fanatic rebel of the Indian Northwest Frontier, giving him information on when it is safe to raid the homes of the British legation. Ben Ramzah decides instead to raid a legation party, rather than the individual homes. Judith Leonards discovers that her husband owns a pendant which serves as a recognition badge for the rebel forces. Leonards, knowing he has been found out, murders his wife. then, fearing Judith's native maid Tabi knows what he has done, Leonards kills her. Leonards runs to the rebel encampment for sanctuary but be Ramzah condemn him for killing the maid, a woman of his faith. The British police raid the camp and capture or kill the rebelks, but it is too late for David Leonards.
From Justice Traps the Guilty #19, October 1950: Deadlier Than the Male! "Somebody should have told Willy Dane that among cops, as among most living creatures, the female of the species often is...Deadlier Than the Male!" Three men and a woman pull off a daring robbery. Before leaving the scene the woman, obviously the leader, shoots an innocent man in cold blood for no reason. It was almost unheard of for a woman to be the leader of such a gang, and police secretary Jill Peterson suggests that it may be a man in disguise. Her reasoning? The woman had flaming red hair and was wearing a red dress, something no woman would do. Jill was right and the killer is tagged as Willy Dane, a trigger-happy psychopath. Jill wanted in on the action but police officials did not want to put a secretary on the front line (the misogynistic s.o.b.s!), but Jill eventually proved that the female can be deadlier than the male.
Any reader of conic books in the 1950s know that crime does not pay. These remastered -- "vintage made new!" -- stories prove that four times over
Enjpy.
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