Crime and Punishment (1948 Lev Gleason) comic books 1955

Cover by Bill Walton. Stories and art by Bill Walton, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. A neighborhood cop tries to prevent juvenile crime, but those young punks just laugh at the law. An article about How Detectives Catch Crooks written by publisher Lev Gleason. A woman buys an old house out in the country and finds two corpses hidden behind the walls, in a particularly macabre story better suited to a horror comic. The Young Punks; Secret In the Wall; How Detectives Catch Crooks: Chapter 1: The Detective's Best Friend--the Patrolman; Human Reptile, or, Life and Death of a Loathsome Monster; The Famous Vorse Murder Case. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Bill Walton cover. "The Big Kayo" (art by Walton), "Dark Alley Gang" (art by Walton), "The Dumb Mutt," (art by Walton), "Al 'Lucky' Dropper" (story and art by 'Peter Cannon...Thunderbolt' creator Peter Morisi), and Bob Globerman's Scott Seven stars in "Great Views." Two page text story, "How Detectives Catch Crooks, Chapter 3." Cover price $0.10.

Bob Globerman cover. Globerman's blue-suited detective Scott Seven graces the cover and stars in "The Murdered Room-Mate" (story and art by Globerman). Also features "P.S. You Murdered Him" (art by Bill Walton), "The Man Who Broke Into Prison" (art by Walton), "The Water Murder Case" (art by Walton), and "Loughran's Lost Life" (art by Walton). Two page text story, "How Detectives Catch Crooks, Chapter 4." Cover price $0.10.