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23September-October 1951
$0.10

Mr. District Attorney #23

DC · September-October 1951 · on sale 1951-07-09

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Series
Mr. District Attorney (DC, 1948 series)
Issue
#23
Publication date
September-October 1951
Key date
1951-09-00
On-sale date
1951-07-09
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Diary of a Criminalcover1pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Charles Paris
2Diary of a Criminal!comic story10script: Dick Wood; pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Charles Paris
4Counterfeit Oddities!cartoon0.67script: Morris Waldinger; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Morris Waldinger; letters: Morris Waldinger
6The Big Basketball Fix!comic story10script: Dick Wood; pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Charles ParisMr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Red Farone; Duke Heinz; Buddy Riley
9Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5letters: typeset
10I Trap Art Racketeerscomic story6pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily
11The Case of the Midget Auto Classic!comic story3.67pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill ElyBlackie Johns; Mike Keyes
13-text article2letters: typeset
14The Magic Money Machinecomic story0.5script: Al McLean; pencils: Al McLean; inks: Al McLean; letters: Al McLean
16The Gang with 1,000 Gimmicks!comic story10script: Ed Herron; pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Charles ParisMr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Miss Miller; ‘Clever Frankie’ Gregg; Sergeant John De Santos; HarryDanton; Hyman Ross
17-cartoon0.67
19Buzzy Says: "Old Folks Are People, Too!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira SchnappBuzzy Brown

Plus 5.99 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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