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Underworld #3

Jun 1948 · D.S. Publishing · 0.10 USD
📊 ~8,667 copies sold its debut month
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An anthology of crime stories featuring multiple tales of criminal activity and justice. The visible stories include "The Bronx Boys," involving a kidnapping case that reaches the district attorney's office; "The Widow of Death," which depicts Belle marrying Peter Guinness and later killing him through a staged accident to collect insurance money, leading to a coroner's inquest that exposes her crimes; and "Gambler's Showdown," a Jim Quaker Western story about a gunslinger confronting lawlessness in Grand Prairie and being asked to become the town's sheriff.

Contains 6 stories
They Killed By Night
6 pp · Crime
Tommy KinseyThe Drydock Gang [Jake Shalmo (gang leader)]Police Captain J. A. Watson
The Bronx Boys
9 pp · Crime
The Bronx Boys [DolakSternl Irv HolinskyWaltersRed BraunPlug Shuman] (juvenile, and later adult gang)Johnny Gatto (crook)
Ma Wilkins Queen Of the Fences
8 pp · Crime
Nellie "Ma" Wilkins (crook)Larry Langdon (crook)Mrs. KemtonHelen Wilkins

Ma Wilkins climbs from hardscrabble streets to become one of the underworld's most powerful fences, moving stolen goods and building a criminal empire with ruthless efficiency. When her daughter Helen comes of age, Ma showers her with the fruits of her illicit success—only to find that family loyalty may be the one thing money can't buy. A tale of ambition, betrayal, and the price of a life lived outside the law.

The Widow Of Death
8 pp · Crime
Belle GuinessMeryl WilsonPeter GuinessOle HicksonEric BlandJoseph MooHobson

Belle Guiness earns her sinister reputation as a calculating predator who uses matrimonial advertisements to lure wealthy men to her farm in La Porte, Indiana, where she methodically murders them for their money and buries the bodies in a hidden cemetery behind her house. When a hired hand named Ray discovers the gruesome truth about her operation, he finds himself caught between exposing the "Widow of Death" and becoming her next victim. This tale of one of history's most notorious criminals shows how Belle's murderous schemes escalate from early cruelty to an industrial-scale killing operation that claims over two dozen lives.

Monk Maloney in the Terror of No Mans' Land!
7 pp · Crime
Monk MaloneyRed KilroyChuck JacksonPolice Captain Martin Stone
The Accident Club
5 pp · Crime
Tom Dugan (insurance investigator)

Insurance investigator Tom Dugan suspects fraud when a string of accident claims lands on his desk, and his hunch leads him into the shadowy operations of the Accident Club—a criminal enterprise manufacturing bogus injury cases for quick payouts. As Dugan digs deeper into one suspicious claim, he must outmaneuver the gang's corrupt doctor and crooked lawyer before they cash in on their scheme.

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $346
CGC 9.8 · 1 in census $23,223*
CGC 9.6 none in existence
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $4,052*
CGC 8.5 none in existence
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CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $2,219*
CGC 7.5 none in existence
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $1,480*
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $1,074*
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $902*
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $858*
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $733*
CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $567*
CGC 3.0 none in existence
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $407*
CGC 2.0 none in existence
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Full credits

artist, inker Al McWilliams
cover pencils, inks Al McWilliams

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Reprinted in Extinct #2 (1992)

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