District attorney is a licensed comic book featuring characters and situations from the mr. Mar 02, 2017 010453, episode 22 this episode provided by the old time radio researchers group at yahoo video upload powered by. District attorney comic book series which ran for 67 issues januaryfebruary 1948 to. District attorney comic book series which ran for 67 issues januaryfebruary 1948. District attorney brian butler, frustrated by his inability to put away all the criminals, becomes the crimebusting costumed vigilante mr. Mr district attorney came along at the right time to catch a wave of crime comics and lasted for 67 issues. When gaines and mayer left dell to produce their own allamerican publications, the content of the funnies turned to original content including content based upon various radio series including mr. The saint 19471015 041 gangster district attorney akamr important total. District attorney is a popular radio crime drama, produced by samuel bischoff, which aired on nbc and abc from april 3, 1939 to june, 1952 and in transcribed syndication through 1953. Get the best deals on dc golden age crime comics when you shop the largest online selection at. Scarlet is so successful that he puts himself out of a job. Hibbard was an american comics artist who worked for allamerican comics nowadays dc comics in the 1940s.
We only hold comic books and images that are in the public domain. He was the first artist to illustrate a justice society story and created the recurring villains winky, blinky and noddy 1942 and thinker 1943 in the flash. Mar 12, 2020 comiclink is the online vintage comic book and comic art auction destination featuring comic book auctions spotlighting the most desirable cgc graded examples of key comics, as well as comic art auctions featuring the biggest names in comic book illustration from the golden age to the present. Their story is told in an exhibition, superheroes in court. District attorney is a licensed comic book featuring characters and situations from the. Based on the popular radio show that lasted from 1939 through 1951. The radio version had been on air since 1939 and dc was quick to advertise its. Today, abnormal use continues its series, abnormal interviews, in which this site will conduct brief interviews with law professors. A the great navarro is escaping right through the wall. District attorney is a 1947 film starring dennis okeefe, michael oshea, marguerite chapman and adolphe menjou. District attorney was a popular radio show created by former law student ed byron which aired from 1939 to 1952. Rochester woman sentenced for role in burglary leading to. Art by howard purcell, ray burnley and henry boltinoff. Gustavehenri jossot, french painter, caricaturist, illustrator and.
Walt disneys mickey mouse free comic book day 2011. District attorney 55 dc 1957 3 or more comic books. The comic book was packaged by max gaines and edited by sheldon mayer. Harry hemsley, british comedian, radio presenter, comics artist, voice actor and illustrator drew for ally slopers half holiday, wrote and drew comics based on his own radio show ovaltineys concert party, passes away at age 73 april 7. Arthur the monkey man steitziz was an ugly man who had been teased and. District attorney comic books is based on the radio crime drama which aired on nbc and abc from april 3, 1939 to june, 1952. It has a solid b cast that includes jeff donnell and george coulouris. The initial tv version 195152 was staged as a live biweekly series and rebooted in 1954. Its subject was the tough talking and nameless district attorney, an implacable and callous force for justice who fought ugly and amoral crooks with colorful names like, smokerings thomson and teh pittsburgh kid. Art by ed dobrotka, charles paris, ralph mayo, stookie allen and unknown. He was one of the main artists behind the flash superhero stories by gardner fox. District attorney is a popular radio crime drama which aired on nbc and abc from april 3, 1939 to june, 1952 and in transcribed syndication through 1953. Rochester men sentenced for their roles in burglary that.
Bills left out of the show totally and hollys actually made more of a lead character as opposed to the book where she supported ralph. A group of prominent citizens take the law into their own hands, forming a vigilante committee in order to deal with. We want your item to arrive intact and in as stated condition. We set up at most conventions in california and the greater western united states. District attorney 55 dc 1957 3 or more comic books get. If you suspect that any of our content may be infringing, then please use our contact page to. Arthur the monkey man steitziz was an ugly man who had been teased and taunted all his life for his monkeylike facial appearance and agility. District attorney serial version, 1939, a fearless crusader for justice and truth. District attorney was a popular radio crime drama which aired on nbc and abc from 1939 to. The 75th anniversary poster book celebrates the storied publishers anniversary with a compilation of the most influential and awesome comic book covers. Shes recommended by the maitland lawyer, howie, with georgia replacing the books oklahoma setting.
The item youve selected was not added to your cart. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. District attorney is far more lighthearted than its source, starring dennis okeefe as prince cadwallader jones, rookie assistant to da winton stanley ridges, assigned to an old case involving the missing paul hyde peter lorre, whose hidden cache of embezzled loot mysteriously turns up at. The monkey man is a character who made his first and only appearance in mr. I cant recall why this book made it onto my to read list, but it did so i read it. He was an ugly man who resembled a chimpanzee and was doublejointed, a trait that allowed him to move like a monkey as well. Comic book short story mr district attorney saved from the. Comic link the online vintage comic book and comic art. The saint 19471015 041 gangster district attorney aka. In the book, ralph and his righthand man, alec, find holly after tracking bill hodges of mr. District attorney comic book series which ran for 67 issues januaryfebruary 1948 to januaryfebruary 1959.
With dennis okeefe, florence rice, peter lorre, stanley ridges. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Instead, the book was a series of vignettes about individual cases, presumably selected to communicate characteristics of the manhattan district attorney instead, it read like a series of. Does a good job detailing the problems arising in district attorney offices and the problem of trying to get rid of incompetent assistant district attorneys. With david brian, jackie loughery, stuart nedd, russ conway. Brad sloans fvf comics our comics are fine very fine a full service vintage comic book source for rare, key and collectible comic books. Comic books picked up on the character right afterwards. The saint 19471015 041 gangster district attorney aka mr important total. Im not too picky on condition so long as it presents well. The big heist with art by howard purcell and ray burnley. Let me know what you have and price and we can make a deal. New adventures dc comics author golden age cover books collection. District attorney, as a licensed property tied in to an ongoing television series, was more restricted in its format than many other crime comics of the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1941, the whitman publishing company published a big little book, mr.
District attorney was based on a radio series, which ran from 1939 to 1953. District attorney on the job, that included a flip book. District attorney the case of the deadly devotion may. Vilhelm hansen and carla hansens comic strip rasmus klump is first published. District attorney was first heard on nbc radio on april 3, 1939. First screen version of the popular radio series, followed by two. District attorney was for many years the nationss bestliked crime show. Nylon for guys dc comics obsessives will give it up for a new collection of the 100 most notable, impressive, and strange covers from the companys vast archives. Art by howard purcell, charles paris, curt swan, john fischetti and howard sherman. The story is based on different cases that actually happened. Like its contemporary, gang busters, the crime comic mr district attorney was licensed from a popular radio show.
I want to fill in some holes in my legal related comic book collection. District attorney vol 1 dc database fandom dc wiki. Also, dc was the leading comics publisher of the era and took a conservative approach to the content of its titles. I expected the book to bring to life the man, but it failed to do so.