Gwandanaland Comics #147

This Gwandanaland Comics collection reprints issues #82–86 of the celebrated Crime Does Not Pay series, with cover art by Charles Biro showcasing a wild street scene straight out of postwar pulp drama — a dairy truck labeled "R.P.'s" surrounded by criminals on motorcycles, a cop caught in the chaos, and characters hurling milk bottles while police close in from all sides. Biro's energetic linework and sharp character expressions capture everything that made this series so gripping, and the cover's speech bubbles ("They're throwing milk bottles!") add a lively, almost cinematic tension. At 52 pages of "All True Crime Illustories," this 2017 compilation is a thoroughly entertaining window into one of comics' most distinctive crime anthologies.