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Home Lev Gleason Comics / Comics House Publications Crime Does Not Pay Crime Does Not Pay 022 (first issue)
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first issue of this ground breaking series - With WAREAGLE's only appearance to boot!
Quietriot scans

29-October-2010 10:20 pm
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Username: glammazon
Comment: Ironically, the man who created CRIME DOES NOT PAY went to jail later on for manslaughter.
12-March-2011 4:22 pm
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Username: Yoc
Comment: Ouch! That's gotta hurt a hand!
28-March-2013 1:05 am
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Username: gperez
Comment: the actual story is nuts, some guy tried to pay him to have sex with a girl he had tied up in a room he said no, and when he got up the next day the guy had been arrested
 
 

Issue: #22
Published: July 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Four Color Interiors; Full Color Covers Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing, 1942, page 316, registration number B541075.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Genre: Crime

Comic Story (12 pages) The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld
Featuring: Crime Kings
Characters: Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (1897-1944) Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplin (1891-1923) Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (1899-1947) Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (1893-1927) I. "Danny Field" Friedman (died 1939) Irving Penn (c1897-1939) Louis Cohen (1904-1939)(unnamed In Story)

Comic Story (10 pages) Wild Bill Hickok
Genre: Historical Western-frontier
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) Tom Smith (1830-1870) John Wesley "Wes Harding" Hardin (1853-1895) Ben Thompson (1843-1884) Phil Cole (1839-1871) Mike Williams (died 1871)(appears Here As Mike McWilliams)

Comic Story (7 pages) Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue
Genre: Crime
Characters: The Esposito Brothers

Comic Story (3 pages) The Saga of Harpshead Road
Genre: Crime
Characters: Big Harp (dies)

Comic Story (2 pages) Two-Legged Rats
Genre: Crime
Characters: Jon Overs (dies)

Comic Story (5 pages) The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom
Genre: Crime
Characters: Zilla (dies)

Text Story (2 pages) Hollywood's Panther Man, the Jersey Devil
Featuring: Crime Corner
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Crime

Comic Story (5 pages) The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes
Genre: Crime
Characters: Dick Williams

Comic Story (5 pages) The Blackout Murder Mystery
Featuring: Be a Detective
Genre: Crime

Comic Story (2 pages) The Bond Drive
Featuring: Dickie Dean
Genre: Humor
Characters: Bob Montana Cameo

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring: The War Eagle
Synopsis: Although struck down with infantile paraylsis, wealthy Bill Reed, after being put down by a college rival for his sweetheart's hand, develops a set of wings, and, over a period of two years, perfects them and is able to walk again. He dedicates his life to serving mankind: foiling hijackers, rounding up public enemies, and so on until a foe emerges called the Wrench, who had suffered injuries from grabbing an incendiary bomb in the 1st World War, and who threatens the S.S. Atlantic.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: The War Eagle [Bill Reed] (introduction) Mrs. Reed (Bill's Mother) Bonnie (Bill's Sweetheart) Roger Currians Klein (crew Member On S.S. Atlantic, Death) Kelly (watchman) Mike (Policeman) The Wrench (villain, Introduction, Death) The Nazis (villains)

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