Lawbreakers! (1951) comic books 1938-1955

Cover by Art Gates. Stories and art by Irwin Hasen and Ken Brickley. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. A young doctor realizes he can make a fortune by treating criminals without contacting the police. Sailors Pete and Rusty sign on as deckhands for a ship, only to discover it's operated by gun runners. A race car driver becomes involved in a deadly romantic triangle. It's a Crime; Crimes Doctor: The Sordid Story of Joseph West M.D.; Crime on the High Seas: Johnny Bellows, City Detective; Dangerous Dough; Justice on the Hoof; Death Takes the Wheel; Clever Clues. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Seevers and others. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. Ricky Stevens' nagging wife just wanted to find out where he goes all the time, but by calling the cops, she inadvertently brings his whole crooked operation down. Rod Raymond P.I. is hired to protect a man from the new husband of his beautiful redheaded ex-wife, but when he gets to the yacht, the man's already dead. Escaped convicts unwisely kill the gangster who helped spring them from prison. Your Crime Scrapbook!; The Case of the Henpecked Gunman; Rod Raymond: Death at High Tide; Johnny Bellows; Killer's Revenge; The Wages of Crime Is.... Death!; Stepping Stones to Terror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Walter Davoren. Stories and art by Bob Seevers, Bob Forgione, Irv Werstein and Walter Johnson. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. Phil tells the reader how a little innocent gambling led him down the road to organized crime and a prison sentence. Ex-con George is trying to go straight, but his corrupt parole officer plants evidence and asks for a bribe. FBI agents track a criminal gang to a bloody final shootout. Plus true facts about how police trace criminals with tire tracks from cars. Crime Tracks: How Criminals Are Trapped; I Was a Gangland Triggerman; They Made Me Steal; The Dog's Name Was Lightning; "Perfect Crime" Backfires; Murder by Dynamite; Death Takes No Holiday. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Shocking cover and classic junkie story "White Death"

Stories and art by Bob Seevers, Bob Forgione, Irv Werstein and Walter Johnson. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. Strait-laced, letter-sweatered college kid Ed gets peer-pressured into trying heroin, and before he knows it he's an addict and a criminal. Margie comes to New York, where her boyfriend Johnny has started a successful business, but she doesn't know his business is cat-burglary. Released from prison after 30 years for a payroll robbery, Jimmy hires a crew to dig up his booty - but they dig up his accomplices as well. Plus true facts about how police track down criminals using dust and dirt particles, fluoroscopy, and even lighting. Crime Tracks: Dust and Dirt Particles; The White Death; Manhattan Terror; The Trail of Terror; The Four-Time Loser; Hot Cars and Hot Lead; The Eccentric Bandit; Science vs. Crime: Color Traps Criminals. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Tyler, Bob Forgione, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. Lt. Mac McCoy sets out to find the missing witness who could put racketeer Sid Hilton away for good. A murder at the creepy old Donovan house remains unsolved for years, until police suddenly realize that an opium ring is using the house. Crooks scam a freight-yard operator out of a semi trailer worth of goods, putting the FBI on the case. Plus true facts about how police trace criminals with ballistics. Crime Tracks: How Criminals Are Trapped...; The Missing Witness Mystery; Crimewave; Words of Death; Scene of the Crime; The Acme Hi-Jack; Racing Facts: The 500. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Lou Morales, Albert Tyler, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. A gang of killers masquerades as ordinary citizens by day, while at night they target a shipment of television sets (then a very new item). A modern-day passenger train is stopped and held up by criminals dressed like Old West desperadoes. DA Frances Delaney and her sidekick Officer Riley challenge the reader to solve a murder before they do. Crime Facts: Did You Know....; The Wharf Rats; The Masquerade Murders; Art Anderson, Automobile Detective; The Money Machine; Manhunt; Notes on Crime. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Lou Morales, Albert Tyler, and Art Capello. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. A crook and a bar owner scheme to take over the local slot machine racket, until the police get wind of it. Detectives trace the murder of a traveling salesman to a hitchhiking couple he picked up. Feds and the US Coast Guard bait the crew of an extra-judicial gambling ship to sail into American waters. The Keyhole Clue; Slot Machine Murders; The Bungling Hitchhikers; Payment for Murder; 3 Mile Limit: A Story of Ruthless Killers; The Deadly Dopester; A Dead Hart Talks!32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Art Capello. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After a bunko cop is killed, police crack down on the con games that criminal gangs are playing around the city. Three convicts plan a prison break, but unfortunately for them, the warden has a plan of his own. A masked killer targets Big Joe Galinki's crooked dice games. Plus true facts about how police track criminals with (1950s-era) trace analysis. Crime Clues: Trapped... By a Hair!; A Sergeant Force Murder Mystery: Cop Killer; Prison Break; Death Foils a Double-Cross; Death in Dice; Insured for Murder; The Forger. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Stan Asch. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After poverty-stricken cabbie Malone foils a cab robbery, he decides to take the crook's gun and do some robbing of his own. Mob enforcer Johnnie Bacon doesn't know what to do when a business won't pay protection money, so his boss shows him. Two women work out a scheme to pick up and rob random men, but one night they pick up the wrong guy. Minute Clues; A Day for Homicide; Death Was His Business; He Wanted to Be a Detective; Murder for Nothing; The Gun; Crime from Within. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lawbreakers Suspense Stories (1953 Charlton) #10. 32 pages, Full Color.