Mr. District Attorney #5 (1948) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Counterfeit Medicine Mob!	cover	1	pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed Dobrotka; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	The Booby-Trap Killer!	comic story	8	pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed Dobrotka; letters: Ira Schnapp
4	The Gas-Man Sleuth!	comic story	8	script: Ed Herron; pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed Dobrotka; letters: Ira Schnapp
5	Harlem's Protector	comic story	1	script: Stookie Allen; pencils: Stookie Allen; inks: Stookie Allen; letters: Stookie Allen	Detective John Roberts
7	Subway Cop	comic story	6	pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos; letters: Ira Schnapp
8	Now! Hollywood's "Queen of the Westerns" in a Comic Book All Her Own!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Dale Evans
9	The Murder with a Million Witnesses!	comic story	3.5	pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: John Giunta; letters: Ira Schnapp
10	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
11	Fingerprint Facts	text article	2	letters: typeset
12	I Guard the Convict Trains!	comic story	8	script: Lewis Mackle; pencils: Nick Cardy; inks: Nick Cardy; letters: Ira Schnapp
13	The Counterfeit Medicine Mob!	comic story	8	pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed Dobrotka; letters: Ira Schnapp
14	All-American Comics; Johnny Thunder	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Alex Toth; inks: Alex Toth	Johnny Thunder

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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