Gangsters Can't Win (1948) comic books 1948

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Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. The true stories of 1920s gangster Dutch Anderson and his protege Gerald Chapman, the first Public Enemy Number One. Holdup woman Irene Schroeder kills a cop, later earning the nicknames "the blonde bandit" and "Tiger Girl" while on trial for murder. A profile of real-life gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. Gerald Chapman: The Evil Genius of Crime; John Wesley Hardin: Killer of the Southwest; The Little Augie--Kid Dropper Feud; Irene Schroeder, The Original Bobbed-Hair Bandit: The Girl, The Gun, and the Grave!; Tip Off ; Wanted: Ned Kelly, Australia's Public Enemy #1, Dead or Alive; Larry Fay, Racketeer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. High-class Eddie Bentz is secretly a criminal mastermind. Early New York ganglord Biff Ellison, of the Five Points Gang and Gopher Gang, gains a reputation for his dapper clothing and propensity for sudden violence. Harry Tracy is the last surviving member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Eddie Bentz alias the Ghost; Basil Banghart; From the Farm to Alcatraz; Black Jack Rule: The Story of "Biff" Ellison: Do the Dead Return?; Murder Pay$ Off; Oregon's Trigger-Happy Killer: Harry Tracy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Leo Morey and others. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Ma Barker and her sons become the first family of crime, until the Feds catch up with them. Beautiful Stella Irwin joins her husband Benny for a spree of bank robberies. Twin brothers Dan and Don Olson both grow up in a bad neighborhood, but one turns to crime and the other becomes a lawman. Most Dangerous Of All; Blue Eyes and a Gun: The Story of Stella Irwin; Twin Trouble; Thunder on the Mountain; Trigger Man: The Story of Frankie Uale; The Mystery of the Stolen Necklace; The Incredible Ma Barker; Brothers In Crime. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Tex Blaisdell and others. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Lefty Schwartz is done in by his own cronies when the heat gets too hot, in a story inspired by real-life gangster Dutch Schultz. No one suspects that a quiet, suburban family man leads a secret life as a bank robber. In 1945, a gangster targets a profitable bookie joint in Chicago. Suicide on Sound Stage Seven; Mystery of the Murder in the Penthouse; Lefty Schwartz; The Ghost of Mrs. Hicks; One Eye's Gang; Death Holds the Joker; Frankie the Pug. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Lawrence Dressler, Bud Willard, Al McWilliams, and Edmond Good. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Inspector Moore investigates the theft of a rare book containing a valuable map. A typewriter key provides the clue that leads postal inspectors to an extortionist. Airborne lawman Breeze Lawson tracks down "Killer" Madden and his female hostage, in a story with some bondage art. Dead Men Don't Drown; The Mystery of the Disappearing Diamonds; The P.I. and the Clocks!; Short Vacation; Sky Sheriff: Trail of Terror; Beauty and the Book; The Mystery of the Speaking Alibi; Jailbreak. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.