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Cover: Charles Biro
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Crime Does Not Pay #34

Jul 1944 · Lev Gleason [1930s-1950s] · 0.10 USD
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Rodney Stark hosts a gathering at his home where he announces his engagement to Ruth. That evening, Stark is found stabbed to death with a knife. A spiritualist is called to conduct a séance to contact Stark's spirit and identify his killer. The séance reveals that each of the guests—Bruce, Claire, Bill, and Jervis—had reason to murder Stark, but through supernatural contact, the killer's identity is ultimately exposed through a mystical revelation that concludes the investigation.

Contains 7 stories
Career of Walter Cahill and the Suède Glove Bandits
11 pp · Crime
27 Years of Murder!
6 pp · Crime
The Grave Gamble
4.5 pp · Crime
The Man in Wolf's Clothing
6 pp · Crime
Four Steps to Doom
4 pp · Crime

When actor Rodney Stark plays romantic games at a dinner party—courting both Claire Alwyn and Ruth King while Bruce Blotz announces his engagement to Ruth—the evening takes a dark turn. A figure slips into Stark's study and plunges a knife into what appears to be the actor's back eight times, and the guests become murder suspects. As amateur detective Clark Shaw conducts a séance to contact Stark's spirit, the killer's identity is revealed in a shocking confession that leads to an unexpected and tragic end.

Tough Guy of Alcatraz
7 pp · Crime
Pencils ? [as Irving]Inks ? [as Irving]
Untitled Crime story
7 pp · Crime

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Raw (Good) $40
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $2,887*
CGC 9.4 $1,849
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $1,185*
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $835
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $473
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CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $362*
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $300*
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $139*
CGC 6.0 none in existence
CGC 5.5 · 3 in census $101*
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $96*
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $82*
CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $71*
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $56*
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 none in existence
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Full credits

writer Dick Wood
artist, inker Rudy Palais
cover pencils, inks Charles Biro

Reprints

Reprinted in Crime Does Not Pay, 1953, (Annual) #[nn] (1953), Crime Does Not Pay Archives #4 (2013), Tops: The Complete Collection of Charles Biro's Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series #[nn] (2022)

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