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WHAT IF: Amazing Detective Cases Vol. 1

Map by Chris Leazer: reprints Amazing Detective Cases #3-14 (310 pages)

November/50: Amazing Detective Cases #3 (25? pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Amazing Bonnie Parker!" (? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Gene Colan (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "unknown" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "The Hungarian Hangman" (? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "With Gun In Hand!" (? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "One Had To Die!" (? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

January/51: Amazing Detective Cases #4 (24 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The Big Shot" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Amazing Mr. Pettigew!" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Easy Money" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Jose Armidez Was He Spain's Greatest Idol...Or Evil?" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "Skull and Cross-Bones" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

March/51: Amazing Detective Cases #5 (24 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The Man Who Burned!" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Perfect Crime?" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Another 'Perfect' Crime" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Jungle Justice" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Mental Marvel" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

May/51: Amazing Detective Cases #6 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "Danger In the City" (8 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Jerry Robinson (pencils); Jerry Robinson (inks)

  • "The Mad Monk" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Taken For a Ride" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Death On the River" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Man They Couldn't Hang!" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); John D'Agostino (pencils); John D'Agostino (inks)

July/51: Amazing Detective Cases #7 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The City of Death" (8? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "Herbert's Hideous Crime" (6? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Big Fix" (5? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Myron Fass (pencils); Myron Fass (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Missing Body" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Monster of the Mardi Gras" (4? pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

September/51: Amazing Detective Cases #8 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "Jailbreak!" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Al Hartley (pencils); Al Hartley (inks)

  • text story

  • "Felt Hat Harry" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "The Deadly Impersonation" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "Death of a Snowman" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "Killer at Large!" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Jack Keller (pencils); Jack Keller (inks)

November/51: Amazing Detective Cases #9 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The Death Notice" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Trap" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "The Man With the Knife!" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Tony DiPreta (pencils); Tony DiPreta (inks)

  • "The Man Who Wasn't" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Gene Colan (pencils); Gene Colan (inks)

  • "The Letter of the Law!" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); John Tartaglione (pencils); John Tartaglione (inks)

January/52: Amazing Detective Cases #10 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "Life Imprisonment" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Tony DiPreta (pencils); Tony DiPreta (inks)

  • text story

  • "Story of Hate" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Final Payment!" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); George Tuska (pencils); George Tuska (inks)

  • "The Man Who Came To Murder" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Marion Sitton (pencils); Marion Sitton (inks)

  • "Needle In a Haystack" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Cal Massey (pencils); Cal Massey (inks)

March/52: Amazing Detective Cases #11 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The Black Shadow" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Fred Kida (pencils); Fred Kida (inks)

  • "The Weird Woman!" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Joe Sinnott (pencils); Joe Sinnott (inks)

  • text story

  • "Sleep-Walking Death" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Murder In the Morgue!" (3 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "A Voice From the Grave" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "It's Time To Go, Higgins!" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Bill Walton (pencils); Bill Walton (inks)

May/52: Amazing Detective Cases #12 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
  • "The Man Who Shrunk" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Martin Ross (pencils); Martin Ross (inks)

  • "Harrigan's Wake!" (3 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Mort Meskin? (pencils); George Roussos? (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Deadly Potion" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "The Eerie Escape" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Bernie Krigstein (pencils); Bernie Krigstein (inks)

  • "What In the World" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Jim Mooney (pencils); Jim Mooney (inks)

  • "The Cat's Meow!" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Jim Mooney? (inks)

July/52: Amazing Detective Cases #13 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Joe Maneely (pencils); Joe Maneely (inks)
  • "Honeymoon of Horror!" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Strange Fingerprints" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Close Shave" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Werner Roth (pencils); Werner Roth (inks)

  • "The Clinging Vine" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Fred Kida (pencils); Fred Kida (inks)

  • "Cave-In" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Joe Sinnott (pencils); Joe Sinnott (inks)

  • "Ghost Story" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)

September/52: Amazing Detective Cases #14 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: George Roussos (pencils); George Roussos (inks)
  • "The Weasel Returns!" (6 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Joe Sinnott (pencils); Joe Sinnott (inks)

  • "Which Is Witch?" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Martin Rose (pencils); Martin Rose (inks)

  • "Hands Off!" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Jack Abel (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Strange Smile" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Drop Dead!" (4 pages)

  • Credits: Hank Chapman (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Mousetrap" (5 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Vic Carrabotta? (pencils); Vic Carrabotta? (inks)

Mockup image by: David Juell

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