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Gangsters Can't Win (1948) 8

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    Gangsters Can't Win (1948) 8
    Gangsters Can't Win (1948) #8
    Published May 1949 by D.S. Publishing.
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    • Interior tearing. Lateral spine tears. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by Robert Jenney. Stories and art by Alden McWilliams and Walter Davoren. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. Adventurer Dick Taylor accompanies a botanist to Nepal in search of a rare Lotus flower. An inventor sets a fatal trap for the rival who stole his invention. An embezzler plots to fake his own death in a car wreck, but that involves finding and murdering his double. The Fires of Nepal; Case Hardened Crime; Plan for Plunder; Express Elevator Down!; Off-Key Alibi; The Detective Drank Milk; Highway to Nowhere. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.