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Crime Must Pay the Penalty #29 (1952)

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 1952 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
Death Flips a Wheel
8 pp · crime

At the 1952 Tampa racing circuit, a bribed driver named "Skid" Maxwell causes a fatal crash to knock out the race favorite—but his crime sets him on a darker path when the mob boss who paid him forces him into a life of getaway driving for armed robberies. As "Skid" proves his worth behind the wheel through increasingly desperate heists, he earns enemies both in the underworld and among the cops determined to stop him, leading to a confrontation where his driving skills may be his only salvation.

The Vanishing Bandits
8 pp · crime

Detective Jerry Byrne spots the Hoctor mob's getaway car during a daring bank robbery in Newdale, but the criminals vanish without a trace—until Jerry discovers their secret: they're using abandoned railway roadbeds to slip between towns undetected. When Jerry's investigation leads him to Tugboat Larkin, a suspicious repair shop owner with a peculiar hobby of studying old maps, he uncovers the mobsters' hidden network—and finds himself in deadly danger when the gang realizes they've been exposed.

The Singing Rat
7 pp · crime

Finger Cullen sings for his supper—but not in any nightclub. A stool pigeon who feeds tips to Detective Lieutenant Brady, Cullen's world turns upside down when a woman working for crime boss Big Benny approaches him with a deadly proposition: set Brady up for an ambush, and she'll help him finally get respect in the underworld. What Cullen doesn't realize is that he's being played in a trap that will turn both the mob and the cops against him, forcing him to run for his life when the truth comes out.

Terror Twins
7 pp · crime

Raised in Hell's Kitchen, brothers Joe and Eddie Dudley follow a brutal path from street theft to armed robbery, with Eddie's blind loyalty to his older brother pulling him deeper into a life of violence. When Joe's arrested during a job for crime boss Romano, Eddie works to spring him—but Joe's paranoia and suspicion about Eddie's growing independence threaten to tear the brothers apart just as the police close in. A hard-edged tale of ambition and betrayal among the criminal underworld, told with the raw energy that defines crime comics of the era.

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