REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES "America's Most Heinous Crime"

150 years ago today...

...what was, until 1963, America's most henious crime occured...

Published in Hillman's Real Clue Crime Stories v2#8 (1947), this Bob Fujitani-illustrated tale wasn't considered important enough to be given the cover illustration...or even a blurb on the cover!

The writer of this never-reprinted tale is, regrettably, unknown.

BTW, when President John F Kennedy was assassinated almost 100 years later, that event was labeled "America's Most Heinous Crime".

REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES "Be My Valentine"

All's fair in love and crime...

...as this never-reprinted note of affection from a menacing matron which appeared in Real Clue Crime Stories V6 N5 (1951) reveals...

Illustrated by Bill Ely, one of the steadier, though unsung, heroes of both the Golden and Silver Ages for almost every company in every genre.
Unfortunately, he never worked on a big-name series, nor was his art stylistically-distinctive enough for him to become more than a footnote in comics history, despite almost 500 stories and covers from 1937-1967 to his credit.

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