Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 41 graded by CGC
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Item #64773327
Published Sep 1945 by Lev Gleason.$4,000.00
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- Paper: Off white to white
- Pedigree: Promise
- The Promise Collection.
- Label #1974641005
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by C. L. Hartman, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Norman Maurer, Robert Sale 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 origin of Mr. Common Sense, sometimes known as Officer Common Sense, a ghost cop who becomes an occasional story host like Mr. Crime. London is terrorized by The Ratcliff Highway murders in the early 1800s. Hoods terrorize a wealthy man with extortion threats against his children. Plus a vintage PSA for wartime tin-can recycling. Uncle Sam Needs Tin!; The Cocksure Counterfeiter; The Slippery Mr. Smith; The Smile of Death; The Saga of "Hungry Joe"; The Monster of Crime; The Meanest Crime; This'll Kill You!; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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