Crime Does Not Pay #90

Lev Gleason's long-running crime anthology reaches issue #90 with Bob Fujitani's sharp, atmospheric cover dropping readers right into a tense alley confrontation — a wide-eyed man in a grey overcoat raises his hand as a gun is leveled at him, while a movie poster for "Sudden Death" looms ominously in the background, its painted femme-fatale face watching the scene unfold. Series regular Chip Gardner, Private Eye, is spotlighted in his inset portrait and teased in the tagline for "The Alhambra Club Murders." Fifty-two pages of crime drama for a dime made this one of 1950's best bargains in pulp-inspired thrills.