Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) comic books 1942

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,895.00 View scans Restored: B1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: tear seal to cover, glue on 13th page, cover reinforced. (Married 13th page) Label #1292690003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Harry Lucey, Woody Hamilton, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, George Tuska, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Numbering continues from Silver Streak Comics (1939) #21. Erroneously listed as issue #23 on cover (#22 in indicia). 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 series kicks off with the true story of 1930s mobster Louis Lepke Buchalter, the gangster who created the Murder, Inc. killer-for-hire operation. The Wild West gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickok becomes a figure of legend. Paralyzed polio survivor Bill Reed develops a set of prosthetic wings and becomes the superhero War Eagle, in his sole adventure. Crime Kings: The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld; Wild Bill Hickok; Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue; The Saga of Harpshead Road; Two-Legged Rats; The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom; The Crime Corner Presents: Hollywoods Panther Man, The Jersey Devil; The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes; The Blackout Murder Mystery; Dickie Dean, The Boy Inventor; The War Eagle. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Woody Hamiilton, Norman Maurer, Richard Norman, Bob Montana, Carl Hubbell, Alan Mandel and Charles Biro. Issue #22 was mistakenly listed as #23 on cover; this issue features issue #23 on both the cover and indicia. 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 FBI plants a trap for notorious outlaw John Dillinger outside a Chicago movie theater. Dillinger's cohort Baby Face Nelson is part of the gang that robs the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa. In 1903, religious leader Edmund Creffield starts a religious cult among the women of Corvalis, Oregon that soon spirals into a series of notorious murders. Crime Kings: The True Story of John Dillinger; Cop Hero of the Month; Baby Face Nelson and the Mason City Bank Robbery; Pancho Villa; The Ridiculous Riddle of the Murdered Major!; The White-Masked Terror; Three Isolated Murders; Two-Legged Rats; The Monster of Munsterburg; The Fire Fiends of Missouri! 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Woody Hamilton, Dick Wood, Bart Tumey, Buriokoff, Alan Mandel, Norman Maurer, Frank Giacoia 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 first appearance of spectral story host Mr. Crime, as he relates the rise and fall of Prohibition gangster Legs Diamond. The chilling true tale of the Philadelphia poison ring, in which gangsters killed unsuspecting victims for insurance payouts. Wild West gunfighter and outlaw Billy the Kid dies at age 21, but not before becoming a legend. The True Story of Jack Legs Diamond; The Mystery of Indian Dick and the Phantom Gold Mine; His Mothers Ghastly Vision; Death Works Overtime!!: The True Story of Philadelphias Poison Ring; The Amazing Mystery of the Murders of Maltese Mansion; The Strange Case of the Four-Legged Witness; Billy the Kid; Corpses for Sale; The Millen-Faber Case. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Briefer, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry 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. Dutch Schultz was done in by his own cronies when the heat got too hot, but thanks to a buried treasure and some cryptic last words, his legend only grows after his death. After Schultz's murder, his attorney Dixie Davis takes over the lucrative numbers racket. Female gunfighter Belle Starr becomes a legend in the Old West. The True Life Story of Dutch Shultz; Dixie Davis; So Mean Hed Kill His Own Mother; The Uncanny Mystery of the Jewel of Death; Belle Starr; The Deadly Fox of the Mohawk; Death in Dreamland; The Mailbox Thief; The Oklahoma Prison Break. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Mike Roy, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel 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. Lucky Luciano created modern organized crime as we know it, but was still able to cut a deal for his freedom. In 1880s England, John Lee manages to elude the reaper despite being falsely accused of murder, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Old West outlaws the Dalton Brothers gain a reputation for bank and train robberies. The True Life Story of… Charles Lucky Luciano; The Elusive Corpse; The Man Who Couldnt Be Killed; The Boy Detective and the Butchered Corpse; The Mystery of the War Bond Drive; Death Gives a Lesson; Thisll Kill You; The Case of the Cross-Eyed Killer; The Dalton Boys. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Jack Alderman, Sam Burlockoff, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Bob Wood, Dick Briefer 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 story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. An angel frees a wrongly convicted man from Hell, and he becomes the skull-faced Mr. Destin while tracking down the real killer. Crack marksman Marty Durkin uses his sharpshooting skills to aid his career in crime. Crime Kings: Pretty Boy Floyd; The Dead-Eye Romeo; Thisll Kill You; The Strange Saga of Rafael Red Lopez; Two-Legged Rats: Dimiran the Demon; Cut-Throat Cassie; The Weird Tale of Mister Destin; The Terrible Touhys; A Voice From the Grave Cheated the Chair. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Norman Maurer, Sam Burlockoff, Dick Briefer, Jack Alderman, Bob Wood 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. Early gangster Kid Dropper helps create New York's Prohibition underworld, but doesn't live to see it prosper. Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger Roger Touhy gets set up for a crime he actually didn't commit. Wild Bill Longley was considered one of the deadliest and most ruthless gunfighters in the Old West. Crime Kings: Kid Dropper; Touhy Mob Captured; Wanted: Husband Who Wont Object to Being Murdered; Mad Murders in Minnesota; Hex Horror; Dodging Death with Big Bill Longley; Whodunnit? The Catnip Club Murder. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.