Police Line-Up #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features three crime stories. "George Krowl and the Big City Murder Mob" depicts police efforts to arrest the criminal kingpin George Krowl, who controls a murder syndicate and uses organized labor racketeering to expand his operations. "Toots" Garboli and his Fight Racketeers" shows gangsters involved in fight fixing operations. "Boss of the Death Gang" portrays a criminal operation disrupted when police discover an illegal distribution scheme. "The Tough Guy" follows Donald Roberts, a juvenile delinquent on the run from police, as he evades capture across the city rooftops.
During the Prohibition era, "Toots" Arthur Garboli muscles his way into the boxing world with threats, bribes, and murder—forcing managers and fighters into crooked matches while authorities struggle to gather evidence against his iron-fisted mob. When Garboli's ambitions push him to seize control of the championship itself, his overconfidence finally gives the police the opening they've been waiting for.
George Krowl, the ruthless crime boss of the West Side, infiltrates a laundry workers' union through a stooge and launches a brutal extortion racket—but when the workers and their companies fight back under the leadership of Max McCormack, Krowl's operation spirals into violence and murder. As the gangster makes his final desperate moves to regain control, the unified workers take a stand that will determine the fate of their livelihoods and lives. This hard-hitting 1952 crime tale shows what happens when a community refuses to yield to corruption.
When a crime boss's gang hits a bar, Lieutenant Jack Burns and his team chase a slim lead—a license plate number—that opens up a dangerous web of robberies, murder, and betrayal across their Midwestern city. As pressure mounts from political powers and gang members start turning up dead, Burns realizes the real culprit has been hiding in plain sight all along, and one carefully observed detail might finally break the case wide open.
Donald Roberts' pride won't let him accept humiliation when rival Lennie Bishop sweeps his girl Frances Norrens off her feet at a party—so he hatches a dangerous scheme to prove himself by robbing a downtown store and become a bigger name than Bishop himself. As Don's plan spirals from ambition into crime, he discovers that pride and jealous rage are forces no teenager can outrun. This gritty 1952 crime tale shows how one night of choices can chase a young man straight into darkness.
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Reprinted in Top Detective Comics #9 (1958), The Crime Machine #1 (1971), Gwandanaland Comics #1199
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