Gwandanaland Comics #2381

This Gwandanaland Comics collection reprints five issues of Real Clue Crime Stories Volume 5, gathering the hard-boiled crime anthology that Hillman Publications brought to newsstands for a dime apiece. The cover art captures a brawling scene outside the Paymaster Eagle Machine Co., where a group of toughs exchange punches and wrenches in a chaotic melee, while speech bubbles make it clear that the real dispute is over who gets to pull off the robbery — the "apprentice" or the self-proclaimed "first class mechanic." At 52 pages per original issue and five issues collected here, it's a satisfying chunk of mid-century crime comics pulp energy in a single volume.