Crime Does Not Pay #37

Charles Biro's cover for this 1945 Lev Gleason issue delivers a furious brawl atop a speeding freight car, with a bald man in green brandishing a weapon, a figure in a cap swinging a club, and a chaotic tangle of combatants in orange and blue suits fighting and tumbling across the roof and sides of the red boxcar — all while a locomotive belches smoke in the background. The "All True Crime Stories!" banner sets the tone perfectly for what's inside, including the Dick Wood and Rudy Palais story "10 Years of Terror Vincent Piazzero." At just ten cents, this issue captures everything that made Crime Does Not Pay one of the most gripping crime comics of its era.