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Cover: Charles Biro
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Crime and Punishment #31

Oct 1950 · Lev Gleason [1930s-1950s] · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple true criminal case histories illustrated in comic form. "On the Level" by C.H. Moore presents several cases including a car thief in Ohio who stole a brief case containing manuscript pages for a book titled "Wages of Honesty," a woman named Jean Williams of Delaware who called police while undressing to distract a prowler, two high school boys who terrorized a restaurant by firing water pistols at each other, Irving Bluck who robbed a store in New Mexico and was caught by a policeman, and John Webb who was arrested and charged with stealing cakes of soap and film cans from a Maryland jail. The issue also features the stories "Belson's Ghost," "When the Lights Went Out," and "Death Rides the 5:15" as indicated on the cover.

Contains 6 stories
Belson's Ghost
12 pp · Crime
Officer Common Sense
Untitled Non-Fiction story
1 pp · Non-Fiction, Crime
The Button
5 pp · Crime
When the Lights Went Out!
11 pp · Crime
Untitled Non-Fiction story
1 pp · Non-Fiction, Crime
Death Rides the 5:15
6 pp · Crime

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $213
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $1,034*
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $859*
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $624*
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $498*
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Full credits

artist, inker Al McWilliams
cover pencils, inks Charles Biro

Reprints

Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics #[nn] (2008), Crime and Punishment #3

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