Crime Does Not Pay #43
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features two crime stories. "Ghouls' Gold," drawn by Jack Alderman with story by Robert Bernstein, recounts the 1829 murders of Burke and Hare in Sheffield, England, two criminals whose business partnership in robbery and murder was driven by greed for corpses to sell. A second story, "Who Dunnit Mystery?" also drawn by Jack Alderman, presents a murder mystery aboard a ship where readers are challenged to identify the killer among five suspects—Captain Singleton, Arthur King, Tom Currans, Gerald Steele, and Ethel Speers—as a storm approaches and one of the passengers is revealed to be a murderer.
In 1945 Chicago, a circus clown becomes obsessed with Sophie Singer, a beautiful actress boarding at his rooming house with her sweetheart Mr. Worthen, and his rejected advances spiral into a desperate act of violence. This true crime story follows the investigation that unravels the clown's dark fixation and the devastating consequences that follow for everyone involved.
'Doc' Moran claws his way out of medical school expulsion and into the criminal underworld, becoming the go-to surgeon for wounded gangsters willing to pay—at any cost. As he patches up killers during Prohibition's bloodiest days and gets tangled up with the Dillinger gang, his shaky hands and dwindling nerve make him as dangerous to his patients as the bullets that brought them to him. When his failures start piling up, Moran learns that in gangland, a liability doesn't get a second chance.
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Reprinted in Crime Does Not Pay Archives #6 (2013), Tops: The Complete Collection of Charles Biro's Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series #[nn] (2022)
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