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Issue: Complete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1944
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWm. H. Wise & Co.
Brand:
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On Sale Date: 1944
Volume:
Pages: 132
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 25 (21 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Lev Gleason ?
Disclose Notes: Rebound copies of Crime Does Not Pay issues #22 and #24 with new cover and original covers removed.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Remaindered collection
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Biro?
Inker(s): Charles Biro?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Table of contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Published by William H. Wise, New York
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Crime Kings The Real Story Behind Lepke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton]
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey
Inker(s): Harry Lucey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Wild Bill Hickok

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Wild Bill Hickok (dies)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was Wild Bill Hickok [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): The Esposito Brothers
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Saga of Harpshead Road

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Biro ?
Penciller(s): Carl Hubbell ? [as Hub]; Charles Biro ?
Inker(s): Carl Hubbell ? [as Hub]; Charles Biro ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Big Harp (dies)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Saga of Harpshead Road [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Two-Legged Rats

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Biro ?
Penciller(s): Bob Montana
Inker(s): Bob Montana
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jon Overs (dies)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was Two-Legged Rats [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Mad Musician and his Tunes of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska ?
Inker(s): George Tuska ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Zilla (dies)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Hollywood's Panther Man Alias the Jersey Devil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton]
Letterer(s): Typeset
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was Hollywood's Panther Man, the Jersey Devil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Case of the Twisted Cigarette

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Briefer
Penciller(s): Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman]
Inker(s): Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dick Williams
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Blackout Murder Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Maurer ?
Inker(s): Norman Maurer ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Be a Detective
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Blackout Murder Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Bond Drive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Montana ?
Penciller(s): Bob Montana
Inker(s): Bob Montana
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dickie Dean Boy Inventor
Character(s): Bob Montana (cameo)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was The Bond Drive [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: War Bond promo
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Factograms

Filler  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Gill
Inker(s): Ray Gill
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black & White. True facts.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Alan Mandel
Penciller(s): Alan Mandel
Inker(s): Alan Mandel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): War Eagle
Character(s): War Eagle [Bill Reed]; Mrs. Reed; The Wrench (villain, intro, dies)
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #22 published July 1942
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The True Story of Jack "Legs" Diamond

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Wood
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mr. Crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was The True Story of Jack "Legs" Diamond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Mystery of Indian Dick and the Phantom Gold Mine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey [as Tumey]
Inker(s): Bart Tumey [as Tumey]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, western
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was The Mystery of Indian Dick and the Phantom Gold Mine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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His Mother's Ghastly Vision

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Burlokoff
Inker(s): Sam Burlokoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was His Mother's Ghastly Vision [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Death Works Overtime the True Story of Philadelphia's Poison Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ivy
Penciller(s): Al Mandel
Inker(s): Al Mandel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was Death Works Overtime the True Story of Philadelphia's Poison Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Amazing Mystery of the Murders of Maltese Mansion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Maurer
Inker(s): Norman Maurer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was The Amazing Mystery of the Murders of Maltese Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: 2 pages are printed in black & white
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The Strange Case of the Four-Legged Witness

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton]
Letterer(s): Typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was The Strange Case of the Four-Legged Witness [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: solution to "The Amazing Mystery of the Murders of Maltese Mansion"
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Pages: 1
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Conny the Convict

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Trakis
Inker(s): Louis Trakis
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was Conny the Convict [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One page four panel gag in black & white
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Billy the Kid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was Billy the Kid [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Corpses for Sale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Briefer
Inker(s): Dick Briefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was Corpses for Sale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Millen-Faber Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Giacoia
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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From Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #24 published November 1942
was The Millen-Faber Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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