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PANIC #3     [SEE MORE]

DATE: July 1954
STORY TITLE:   "None"
STORY PLOT:   Old King Cole smokes marijuana - This is only a 3 panel story; Panic magazine (sort of like MAD) also treats it as a joke. But this is among the first (let's get real) stories ever put to print. We only have the cover and (Old King Cole) story page.
CHARACTURES:  Old King Cole
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Only a short 3 panel story.
Publisher:


[ Wanted - The Museum Does NOT have and is looking for a copy]
The PERFECT CRIME #15


DATE: Aug 1951
STORY TITLE:   "The Most Terrible Menace"
STORY PLOT:   Two page drug editorial; This tells of the "Drug Pusher" giving away free Marijuana and then getting them started on the harder drugs.
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Museum is looking to obtain a copy.  
Publisher: Cross Publications, Inc., 9 West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y.


The PERFECT CRIME #18     [SEE MORE]

DATE: November 1951
STORY TITLE:   "No Time Lost"
STORY PLOT:   Drug cover + 2 page drug editorial "No time lost".
CHARACTURES:  Plastic Man
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Two star reefer madness rating
Publisher: Cross Publications, Inc., 9 West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y.


POLICE COMICS #4


DATE: November 1941
STORY TITLE:   "None"
STORY PLOT:   [Part 1] The evil "Madam Brawn," the head of an extortion racket that is terrorizing the city, captures poor Plastic Man and forces him to smoke reefers. The next panel shows him running around in a drug dazed state, shooting a gun up in the air saying, "Whee!! I'm a Killer," etc, etc. All effects of the reefers, of course.
CHARACTURES:  Plastic Man
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Note, museum has a poor copy, but it's better than nothing
Publisher: Comics Magazine Inc. S. Lord St., Buffalo, N.Y.


POLICE COMICS #5     [SEE MORE]

DATE: December 1941
STORY TITLE:   None
STORY PLOT:   [Part 2] The evil "Madam Brawn," the head of an extortion racket that is terrorizing the city, captures poor Plastic Man and forces him to smoke reefers. The next panel shows him running around in a drug dazed state, shooting a gun up in the air saying, "Whee!! I'm a Killer," etc, etc. All effects of the reefers, of course. Must reading.
CHARACTURES:  Plastic Man
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Five star reefer madness rating [2]- Museum only has a very poor copy
Publisher: Comics Magazine Inc. S. Lord St., Buffalo, N.Y.


PRISON RIOT #1

DATE: 1952
STORY TITLE:   "Marijuana Murders"
STORY PLOT:   A one page text story - "a white, sand-like powder poured. It glistened in the light of the street lamp. When the cop on the beat came running up to the body---- he recognized right away that the stuff was marijuana." etc.. [- Copyright states -- All names in this periodical are entirely fictitious and no identification with actual persons is intended.]
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- White Powder = Medical Marihuana????
Publisher: Avon Periodicals, Inc., 878 Madison Ave., New York 22, New York.


PRIZE COMICS WESTERN #92     [SEE MORE]

DATE: March 1952
STORY TITLE:   "Dope Teen-Age Menace"
STORY PLOT:   A one page anti-Dope Ad or Story: (boy starts out on reefers goes on to heroin from there on) --Note, this is not the "Frazetta" Anti-drug ad, found on numerous Lev Gleason comic books. Should be read.
FOOTNOTES:   [1]- Good reading
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