Gangsters Can't Win (1948) comic books 1955 or before, graded by CGC
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Item #60369746
Published Mar 1948 by D.S. Publishing.$323.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #4369208001
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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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Item #60999369
Published May 1948 by D.S. Publishing.$3,629.00- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #3719212008
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Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. High-class Eddie Bentz is secretly a criminal mastermind. Early New York ganglord Biff Ellison, of the Five Points Gang and Gopher Gang, gains a reputation for his dapper clothing and propensity for sudden violence. Harry Tracy is the last surviving member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Eddie Bentz alias the Ghost; Basil Banghart; From the Farm to Alcatraz; Black Jack Rule: The Story of "Biff" Ellison: Do the Dead Return?; Murder Pay$ Off; Oregon's Trigger-Happy Killer: Harry Tracy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61483996
Published Jul 1948 by D.S. Publishing.$500.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #4256369012
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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.
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