Valentine's Day Violence HEADLINE COMICS "To My Valentine"

You thought we wuz gonna send roses?

Hell, no!

We bring you the sordid story of the most famous crime ever perpetrated on the Day for Lovers!

In 1947, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby took over editorial control for several titles of the Prize Comics line, giving them much-needed revamps, upping the action and violence quotient.
This tale was from Prize's Headline Comics #23 (1947), the first issue under their stewardship.
When this story was published, the massacre was less than twenty years earlier, and the incident wasn't history, but news the authors read and heard as kids and now re-presented in four-color form.
It's not totally historically-accurate, but then, what dramatization of a real-live event is?

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ALL-NEGRO COMICS "Ace Harlem" Conclusion

When Last We Left Ace Harlem, Famed Negro Detective...

...well, I'll let the author explain what's going on...

A second issue was written and illustrated, but, sadly, was never published, and no art for it has ever been seen by the public.

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ALL-NEGRO COMICS "Ace Harlem" Part 1

Before Virgil Tibbs!

Before John Shaft!

Before Easy Rawlins!

There was..Ace Harlem...

...the first Black detective in any literary format to star in his own story!

To Be Continued...
Friday!
Written and illustrated by Black creative John Terrell, this tale features a fashion phenomenon unique to the 1930s/40s...zoot suits!

There's a superb article about the trend HERE that explains it far better than I could.

As to Ace himself, publisher, Orrin C. Evans, wrote in his editorial...

Through Ace Harlem, we hope dramatically to point up the outstanding contributions of thousands of fearless, intelligent Negro police officers engaged in a constant fight against crime throughout the United States.

A second issue was written and illustrated, but, sadly, was never published, and no art for it has ever been seen by the public.

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