Down with Crime (1951) 5

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Herb Gartner. Classic pre-Code crime comics from Fawcett. Alfred Menks becomes infamous for his long series of successful prison escapes, and he dares the police to catch and hold him. Mobsters hire the hit woman known as Icy Vanes, but she's after a bigger score, in a story featuring some bad-girl art. Ditch Dekker deliberately pulls several jobs in the same neighborhood, because he's trying to create a trap for Delainey, the cop who sent him to prison. No Jail Can Hold Me!; The Female of the Species; The Booby Trap Killer; Case No. 118: Ditch Dekker's Crime Career! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.