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CRIME DOES NOT PAY (comic) CRIME DOES NOT PAY (comic) comic book OR search current auctions Auction History Result 6s0197 CRIME DOES NOT PAY #43 comic book January 1946 great Charles Biro cover art, Lev Gleason! Date Sold 6/9/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Comic Book (measures approximately 7 1/8" x 10 1/4" [18 x 26 cm]) (Learn More) Crime Does Not Pay is a crime thriller comic book series published between 1942 and 1955 by Lev Gleason Publications. The series recounted the deeds of gangsters such as Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly, often in ultra gory detail, and was the first non-humor comic to rival superhero comics in sales, and by the early 1950s, publisher Lev Gleason turned his few comic books into a publishing empire! There are those who think that a major factor in the creation of the Comics Code was specifically to put Lev Gleason and Bill Gaines (publisher of EC Comics) out of business, and if so, they succeeded! Note that the numbering continues from Silver Streak Comics (to save money on postal regulations), so the very first issue is #22. Artist: Charles Biro Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this comic book! Contents: Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Bernstein, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Woody Hamlton, Vernon Henkel, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. An unhinged circus clown, spurned by a woman after making a declaration of love (in full clown regalia), then murders her (still in full clown regalia). The infamous Burke and Hare get jobs providing corpses to early medical schools, but when they run out of bodies, they start making fresh ones. Drunken med-school reject "Doc" Moran becomes the underworld's favorite physician. Also featuring a vintage PSA about recognizing honorably discharged veterans. The Bookkeeping Bandit; Case of the Love Sick Clown; Ghouls' Gold; The Folly of Johnny Bananas; The Case of the Impossible Suicide; Doctor of Evil; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Please note that we don't use a "comic guide" grading system, and OUR grading scale is completely different from standard comic book grading. Our "very good" is completely different from a comic book graded "very good". Note that this comic book will be sent to the winning bidder in a brand new Mylite2 protective sleeve and a half-back 100% acid-free backing board. Note that we have pictured both covers and some interior page of this comic, which means that you can hopefully see most defects the comic has, AND get a good sense of its condition. While we gave the comic an overall condition grade (and sometimes describe the defects in words) please rely on the actual images of the comic we provide here to help you decide what YOU think its condition is, and then bid or not bid based on what you are seeing in the images. And if you have ANY doubt as to what the condition of the comic is, or whether you want it in the condition it is is, then please do not bid, as we do not want any retracted bids or returns if at all possible. If in doubt, do not bid!. Condition: good. There is darkening in the right edge of the cover and some scattered small darkening in the right edge of the interior pages. Learn More about condition grades 
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