Gwandanaland Comics #2393

This Gwandanaland Comics collection brings together five issues of Real Clue Crime Stories in one handsome volume, reprinting Hillman Publication's hard-hitting October 1949 crime anthology. The cover sets the tone perfectly: two uniformed officers look down with barely concealed amusement at a would-be crook slumped on the pavement beside a Colonial Armored Delivery Service truck, a speech bubble delivering the deadpan verdict — "He must have been a beginner… trying to rob an armored car." With 52 pages of crime stories per original issue and the memorable tagline "Commit a crime and the world is made of glass," this 2019 reprint is a great way to dive into the gritty, cautionary world of postwar crime comics.