Police Line-Up #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two crime stories. "Louie Gruber: Czar of the Underworld" follows the rise and fall of a ruthless crime boss who built his empire through murder and violence in February 1950, only to be brought down when his greed and cruelty lead to his destruction. "The Unseen Murderer" tells of Detective Peter Allen, shot by an unknown assailant during what he believes is his final case; as he lies dying in March 1946, he must solve the murder to frame the words of his stiffening lips, leading to an investigation that uncovers a criminal plot involving arson and bombing orchestrated by a man named McCoy.
Mae Crandall, a hardened criminal with a twisted sense of loyalty to her younger brothers Jake and Pete, raises them on the creed that crime is the only way to get ahead—and together they build a ruthless gang empire that terrorizes the city in the early 1940s. When Pete falls for a woman named Mary and dreams of leaving the life behind, Mae's grip on her brothers tightens with deadly consequences. As the Crandall crime wave spirals toward its reckoning, the lines between family bond and murderous obsession blur in this gritty tale of how ambition and violence destroy everything they touch.
Louie Gruber, a ruthless crime boss, orchestrates a daring scheme that begins with coordinating five simultaneous robberies across the city—each carried out by different gangs under his command. As his operation expands into drug trafficking and he tightens his grip on the underworld, the authorities close in, and Gruber finds himself cornered with nowhere left to turn. Watch as ambition and greed collide in this hard-boiled crime tale of a man who built an empire on violence, only to see it crumble when the law finally catches up.
Detective Peter Allen is gunned down on a dark Sunday night in 1946, shot by an unseen killer—but as death creeps in, he realizes he's witnessed just enough to identify his murderer and must find a way to leave behind the evidence that will solve his final case.
Leech McCoy is a brutal arsonist and killer who takes jobs burning houses for profit, working alongside a woman driver who assists his criminal schemes. When police identify him after a pair of suspicious fires, McCoy goes on the run, leading authorities on a desperate chase across state lines that culminates in a tense roadside confrontation. This hardboiled crime tale follows the relentless pursuit of one of the most wanted men in America as the law closes in.
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Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases #[1] (1952), The Crime Machine #2 (1971), The Joe Kubert Archives #1 (2012), Police Comic #2
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