Crime Does Not Pay #59

Jan 1948 · Lev Gleason [1930s-1950s] · 0.10 USD

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This anthology issue presents two crime stories: "Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy No. 1 (1931-1936)" documents the violent career of the notorious gangster, detailing his crimes of murder, kidnapping, and robbery before his capture by J. Edgar Hoover's G-men; and "Cut Rate Murder," which exposes Brooklyn's murder-incorporated and the WhyoGang, depicting their organized system of contract killing with prices for various violent acts, culminating in a narrative about criminals operating within the underworld. Both stories serve the magazine's stated purpose of exposing real crimes to demonstrate that crime does not pay.

Contains 6 stories

Vic Everhart the Kill-Crazy Scoundrel, Who Hated the Law and Proved It With Every Blast of His Revolver!

11 pp · Crime

Mr. Crime (host)

Alvin Karpis Public Enemy No. 1 (1931-1936)

8 pp · Crime

Cut Rate Murder

6.5 pp · Crime

Untitled Humor story

0.5 pp · Humor

Untitled Crime story

6 pp · Crime

Financier of Death

4 pp · Crime

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CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $994*

CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $694*

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CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $363*

CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $304*

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Full credits

artist, inker George Tuska

cover pencils, inks Charles Biro

Reprints

Reprinted in Tales of the Killers #11 (1971), Blackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] (2011), Crime Does Not Pay Archives #10 (2015)

Key issues in Crime Does Not Pay

#24★

#24 1st appearance — Mr. Crime

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