Crime Cases Comics #6

Crime Cases Comics #6 brings hard-boiled crime drama straight from the police files, spotlighting the "Shakedown" case — the documentary history of strong-arm hoods Lefty Ambrose and Spade Hallman, depicted on Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule's cover in the act of shaking down a terrified old man behind a desk littered with scattered papers and coins. A lawman closing in from the background makes it clear these two won't get away clean, and the tagline says it all: "Crime Can't Win." A fine slice of 1951 crime comics, grounded in the era's fascination with true-to-life police case files.