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Crime and Punishment
Lev Gleason [1930s-1950s] · 1948–1955 · 74 issues
About the series
From 1948 to 1955, Lev Gleason Publications delivered Crime and Punishment, a 74-issue comic that helped define the pre-Code crime genre with its gritty, moralistic tales of criminals meeting their just deserts. Driven by the prolific writing of Charles Biro, Carl Wessler, and Claude Moore, and brought to life by artists like Bob Fujitani, Al McWilliams, and Bill Walton, the series balanced lurid crime stories with a stern, cautionary tone. It stands as a key artifact of the era's crime-comic boom, showcasing the raw, unregulated storytelling that would soon be curbed by the Comics Code.
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