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Cover: Dick Giordano & Vince Alascia
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Crime and Justice #20

Sep 1954 · Charlton · 0.10 USD
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This is an anthology issue containing at least two crime stories. "In the Back Room of the Professor" depicts three convicts—Pug, Steel Plummer, and Big Pedro—who escape from Northwestern Penitentiary and plan a major currency heist after learning from a railroad dispatcher about valuable freight shipments. "The Test of Death" features Raymond J. Hanley, a manipulative bank president, who blackmails cashier Clark Lipstone into murdering his business partner Max Jenkins by threatening to expose Lipstone's theft and affair; when Lipstone refuses and reports the scheme, Hanley's plan backfires as police close in on the criminals.

Contains 5 stories
The Anniversary Gift!
7 pp · Crime
Express Car #105
10 pp · Crime

A legendary crime boss known as the Professor reluctantly joins forces with two escaped convicts to pull off an audacious five-million-dollar railway heist—a score so massive he plans to make it his last job. With meticulous planning, disguised photographs, and explosives strategically placed near the White Horse Tunnel, the Professor orchestrates every detail of the robbery while harboring a secret agenda known only to himself. When the signal finally comes that the currency shipment is en route, the carefully laid trap springs into motion.

I'll Never Sing Again!
4 pp · Crime

A young informant trapped between two brutal forces makes a desperate play to protect the one person who's always stood against him—but the price of that loyalty might be his life. In this hard-boiled tale from Crime and Justice #20, a stoolpigeon's web of obligations to both the police and the criminal underworld finally snaps, forcing him to choose between his survival and his conscience. Watch as a bitter rivalry between a cop and a criminal informant collides with an even darker threat—and discover what it takes to truly break free from the mob.

Can You Solve This?
1 pp · Crime
A Deadly Circle
6 pp · Crime

Tex and Barry of the Radio Patrol investigate a series of murders committed with curare poison, tracking a killer who strikes in a deadly circle of alleys across the city. When the detectives close in on a suspect, they uncover a shocking truth about the killer's identity and must use their wits—and a clever antidote—to survive an encounter with this depraved criminal. The case tests everything they've learned about tracking a predator who operates in the shadows between law and jungle savagery.

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Raw (Good) $54
CGC 9.6 · 2 in census $2,417*
CGC 9.4 · 4 in census $1,546*
CGC 9.2 · 4 in census $993*
CGC 9.0 · 4 in census $689*
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $481*
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $377*
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CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $252*
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CGC 5.5 · 3 in census $153*
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CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $125*
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $108*
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Full credits

inker Ray Osrin
cover pencils Dick Giordano
cover inks Vince Alascia

Reprints

↩ Reprints Down with Crime #1 (1951)

Reprinted in Uncanny Tales #46 (1966), Crime & Justice #1 (1998), Crack Action #4

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