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Gangsters Can't Win (1948) comic books graded by CGC

  • Item #60999369
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    $5,110.00
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    • Label #3719212008
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    Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. High-class Eddie Bentz is secretly a criminal mastermind. Early New York ganglord Biff Ellison, of the Five Points Gang and Gopher Gang, gains a reputation for his dapper clothing and propensity for sudden violence. Harry Tracy is the last surviving member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Eddie Bentz alias the Ghost; Basil Banghart; From the Farm to Alcatraz; Black Jack Rule: The Story of "Biff" Ellison: Do the Dead Return?; Murder Pay$ Off; Oregon's Trigger-Happy Killer: Harry Tracy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61976847
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    $3,800.00
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    • Label #4376916001
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    Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. High-class Eddie Bentz is secretly a criminal mastermind. Early New York ganglord Biff Ellison, of the Five Points Gang and Gopher Gang, gains a reputation for his dapper clothing and propensity for sudden violence. Harry Tracy is the last surviving member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Eddie Bentz alias the Ghost; Basil Banghart; From the Farm to Alcatraz; Black Jack Rule: The Story of "Biff" Ellison: Do the Dead Return?; Murder Pay$ Off; Oregon's Trigger-Happy Killer: Harry Tracy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61483996
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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.