CATALOG RECORD

Big Town #1

DC · Series began 1951 · January 1951

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Dates

Cover date: January 1951
On sale: November 22, 1950
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Carmine Infantino, Dan Barry, Ray Thompson, Stookie Allen, Howard Sherman, Ruben Moreira, Henry Boltinoff, Win Mortimer, Fred Ray, Fred Harmaninks: Sy Barry, Ray Thompson, Stookie Allen, Howard Sherman, Ruben Moreira, Henry Boltinoff, Win Mortimer, Fred Ray, Fred Harmanscript: Dave Wood, Ray Thompson, Stookie Allen, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Schiff, Ewald Ludwig, Ed Herronletters: Ray Thompson, Stookie Allen, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

Deadline Nightmare! · 10 pages
The Forgotten Men of Skid Row! · 10 pages
Snaps a Crook · 0.75 pages
An amateur photographer helps nab a fugitive.
I Fight Crime with My Camera · 8 pages
A criminal steals uranium and only crime photographer Jim Springer has a clue where it's hidden.
The Open Door · 2 pages
The Flag of Doom! · 10 pages
A taxi-cab crime gang is using their own taxi cabs and own drivers to rob wealthy passengers .. by using a secret radio microphone in each taxi’s fare box. A group of thieves rob the wealthy passengers, as they arrive at their requested destination and exit the cab. Editor Steve Wilson gets his close friend “cabbie” harry the hack .. to infiltrate the gang to help find out who is the taxi crime gang’s leader .. and Harry eventually helps the police to capture the leader and the gang by alerting the police while purposely driving with an invalid license plate.

Reprinted in

Adventure Comics (1938), Mr. District Attorney (1948)