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Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 50

  • Issue #50
    Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 50
    • Centerfold coming loose at the staple.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Dick Briefer, Rudy Palais, Bob Moore, Jack Alderman, Walter Johnson and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The Fleagle brothers like to rob banks together, but superstitions may turn them against each other. Bespectacled killer Danny Iamascia is even more dangerous with his glasses off - to his fellow hoods and himself, in a story with early art by future "Flash Gordon" artist Dan Barry. A masked robber terrorizes the Massachusetts town of Belmont, so citizens organize a neighborhood patrol. The Kill-Crazy Fleagle Brothers; Danny Iamascia, Dutch Schultz's Triggerman; On the Level; Arkansas Killer; The Chicken-hearted Killer; Jail Didn't Save Them; The Belmont Bandit; Whodunnit: The Invisible Killer. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.