
[updated 10/28/25]

Famous Crimes #1 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages.

May 1948 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “Dicks Die Hard”
H.H. Stinson, “That’s Murder for You” (PI Mack Spain)
Robert Martin, “No Haven for Homicide”
Richard Dermody, “Doc Pierce’s Corny Caper” (Doc Pierce)
Don James, “Hearse for a Homicide”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Reluctant Corpse”

[updated 5/12/25]

1952 Morrow hardcover
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam