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Issue: Crime Does Not Pay #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1942
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Issues: #22 of 126 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: Published by Comic House Inc.
Indicia Publisher: Comic House Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/29/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing, 1942, page 316, registration number B541075.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Crime Does Not Pay a Completely New Kind of Magazine

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Crime Kings
Character(s): Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (1897-1944); Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplin (1891-1923); Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (1899-1947); Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (1893-1927); I. "Danny Field" Friedman (died 1939); Irving Penn (c1897-1939); Louis Cohen (1904-1939)(unnamed in story)
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as Crime Kings The Real Story Behind Lepke [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story is noted as "Disgrace to the Human Race" #1. Baby Faced Nelson is announced as "Disgrace to the Human Race" #2 appearing in the next issue.
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Wild Bill Hickok

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876); Tom Smith (1830-1870); John Wesley "Wes Harding" Hardin (1853-1895); Ben Thompson (1843-1884); Phil Cole (1839-1871); Mike Williams (died 1871)(appears here as Mike McWilliams)
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as Wild Bill Hickok [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: signature in lower right hand corner of splash page.

Next issue blurb promises the story of Pancho Villa.

The final panel reads "Next month CRIME COMICS brings you..." (not Crime Does Not Pay).
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Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): The Esposito Brothers
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Volp is credited on this series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the artwork here, with marked, bony cheeks and mouth often rendered in two short lines, can be found in his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason).

Last panel reads "Next month and every month CRIME COMICS will give you the real truth behind the unsung police heroes of our day." Like the last panel of the previous story, this suggests the original planned title of the comic was CRIME COMICS but was changed to CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
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The Saga of Harpshead Road

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Big Harp (dies)
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as 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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jon Overs (dies)
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as 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
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Zilla (dies)
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as 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, the Jersey Devil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime Corner
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as Hollywood's Panther Man Alias the Jersey Devil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dick Williams
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as The Case of the Twisted Cigarette [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): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Be a Detective
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as The Blackout Murder Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The solution appears on the last page of the War Eagle story.
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The Bond Drive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dickie Dean
Character(s): Bob Montana cameo
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as The Bond Drive [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: War Bond promo
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Cilicia

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stamps
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stamp column with stamp ads.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The War Eagle
Character(s): The War Eagle [Bill Reed] (introduction); Mrs. Reed (Bill's mother); Bonnie (Bill's sweetheart); Roger Currians; Klein (crew member on S.S. Atlantic, death); Kelly (watchman); Mike (Policeman); The Wrench (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)
First Line: Steel grey wings over America...
Synopsis: Although struck down with infantile paraylsis, wealthy Bill Reed, after being put down by a college rival for his sweetheart's hand, develops a set of wings, and, over a period of two years, perfects them and is able to walk again. He dedicates his life to serving mankind: foiling hijackers, rounding up public enemies, and so on until a foe emerges called the Wrench, who had suffered injuries from grabbing an incendiary bomb in the 1st World War, and who threatens the S.S. Atlantic.
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In Content Item: FlagComplete Book of True Crime Comics #[nn] published January 1944
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Only appearance of the War Eagle.

The solution to the "Blackout Murder Mystery", found elsewhere in the issue, is found at the bootom of page 10.

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