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Issue: Crime Does Not Pay #61 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1948
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Issues: #61 of 126 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: Lev Gleason PublicationsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Lev Gleason Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/09/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 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, January-June 1948, page 32, registration number B117630.
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Inker(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Clay Fogelman
First Line: Go ahead, Clay!
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Does Not Pay #61 published April 1948
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Clay Fogelman Meanest Man of Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska (signed)
Inker(s): George Tuska (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story
Character(s): Mr. Crime (host)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Mother Knows Best!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska (illustration)
Inker(s): George Tuska (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Moms (Mrs. Alfred Johnson, Mrs. Nellie Smith, Mrs. Gloria Bishop, Mrs. Helen Daidone, and Mrs. F.M. Farley) promoting the Crime Does Not Pay comic.
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The Rise and Fall of Johnny "Socks" Lazia King of the Alky Rackets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Barry
Inker(s): Dan Barry
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story
Character(s): Mr. Lee (supervisor of a reformatory); Johnny "Socks" Lazia (villain); Hank (villain); Reynolds (villain); Crumbs (villain); Baron Bentley (villain); Linda (villain, the Baron's girl, death); Monte Rogers (villain, death); Broda (villain); Georgie (villain); Griff (villain); Riley (villain); Sam (villain); Joe Trumper (villain, lawyer)
Synopsis: The story is told of the rise of Johnny Lazia, a bad egg from the time of his youth to the over-throw of Baron Bentley, taking over racket after racket, then dying at the hands of the Baron in revenge.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #11 published December 2012
as The Rise and Fall of Johnny "Socks" Lazia King of the Alky Rackets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Bill Black confirms the pencils are by Barry, so ? removed.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Feature(s): On the Level
First Line: Help! Police! Murder! Robbery! Help!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: He says his wife won't believe he was robbed!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
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Killers' Payoff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska (illustrations)
Inker(s): George Tuska (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2.67
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Moore
Penciller(s): Bob Moore
Inker(s): Bob Moore
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: What makes you think I did it?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
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Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story Who Dunnit?
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In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #11 published December 2012
as Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): What's On Your Mind?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Mrs. Virginia Terranova, William Ferrari, D.B., Frank Conroy, Mrs. Marie Roberson, George S., and Lester Martin.
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The Electric Chair and the Murderess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Bob Fujitani
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Comics #1 published January 2002
as The Electric Chair and the Murderess [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] published September 2011
as The Electric Chair and the Murderess [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art ID from reprint.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bert Bushell; Bob Moore
Penciller(s): Bert Bushell; Bob Moore
Inker(s): Bert Bushell; Bob Moore
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): This'll Kill You
First Line: But I don't talk to strangers!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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