Crime Does Not Pay (comics)
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Crime Does Not Pay is an American comic book series published between 1942 and 1955 by Lev Gleason Publications. Edited and chiefly written by Charles Biro, the title launched the crime comics genre a
Electrocution cover, issue 42
Cover of Crime and Punishment #1 (April 1948) by Charles Biro.
Splash panel from Crime Does Not Pay number 55, September 1947. Artwork by Dan Barry.
Justice Traps the Guilty number 7 (Prize Comics, November 1947). Artwork by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
Lepke Buchalter
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Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke, Lepke Buchalter or Judge Louie,, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one o
Crime Does Not Pay (comics)
…articles and comic stories about real criminals and was written by Biro and Wood. Biro designed and drew the first cover and wrote stories about mobsters Louis Buchalter and "Diamond Joe" Esposito, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok. Initial issues sold approximately 200,000 copies each, a healthy number for the time, but…
Buchalter in 1939
Buchalter during his 1941 sentencing in New York for murder
Cover of the first issue of Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason Publications, July 1942), featuring the story of "Killer Lepke - alias Louis Buchalter"