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Issue: Crime Does Not Pay #42 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1945
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Issues: #42 of 126 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: Lev Gleason PublicationsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Comic House Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/24/1945
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1945, page 449, registration number B689293.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
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FlagBlackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] published September 2011 as [untitled] [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)] cover detail
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Inker(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Willie the Actor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Wood
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mr. Crime; Officer Common Sense
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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Million Dollar Burglar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman (credited/signed)
Inker(s): Jack Alderman (credited/signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): George Leslie
Synopsis: The career of Burglar "Western George" Leslie.
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In Content Item: FlagBlackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] published September 2011
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Pages: 6.67
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Murder Will Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Maurer (signed)
Inker(s): Norman Maurer (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 6
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The Saga of Sir Charles

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Writer(s): Dick Wood (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1.5
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: From now on this whole page will be devoted to you
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Introducing letters page "What's on Your Mind?" Address: Crime Does not Pay Comics, 114 East 32nd Street, New York 16, N.Y.
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Can You Solve the Murder at the Mardi Gras?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais (signed)
Inker(s): Rudy Palais (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Who Dunnit?
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Pages: 8
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The True Story of Leonard Scamici, Killer For Hire

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Genres: crime
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Pages: 6
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The Case of the Phony Count Chivano

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman (credited/signed)
Inker(s): Jack Alderman (credited/signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 7

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