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Issue: Crime Does Not Pay #43 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1946
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Issues: #43 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: 11/10/1945
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (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 B703382.
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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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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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Premiums or Cash given

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Wilson Chemical Co.
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The Bookkeeping Bandit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mr. Crime; Officer Common Sense (ghost cop)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Case of the Love Sick Clown

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
Character(s): Sophie Singer (actress, death); Mr. Worthen (Sophie's sweetheart); the Clown (villain)
Synopsis: When Sophie and her sweetheart take rooms at a local boarding house, a visit from a clown proves to be disastrous, and anything but funny.
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Pages: 6
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Ghouls' Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Bernstein (signed)
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Alderman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Character(s): Hare; Burke; Dr. Knox; Mary Patterson; Mr. Patterson; Mrs. McGowan
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story is later plagiarized in "Corpses - Cash and Carry" in Exposed (D.S. Publishing Co., 1948 series) #1 (March-April 1948).
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The Folly of Johnny Bananas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Woody Hamlton (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 2
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): What's On Your Mind
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The Case of the Impossible Suicide

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 7
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Doctor of Evil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 6.75
Disclose Notes: bottom quarter of last page of story is a promo for the "Big 3" Lev Gleason comics (Boy, Daredevil and Crime Does Not Pay)
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Pre-War ... War ... Post-War

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Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for "The Big 3" comics; Daredevil Comics (Lev Gleason, 1941 series), Boy Comics (Lev Gleason, 1942 series), and Crimes Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason, 1942 series).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Alderman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Who Dunnit Mystery?
First Line: Death rode the waves with the Mary Lou...
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Pages: 6
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13 Million Men and Women Will Wear One!!

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Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promoting respect for honorably discharged servicemen and women.
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Given Your Choice of Valuable Gifts ...

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations); ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations); ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Dean Studios.
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Here's the Greatest Billfold Bargain ...

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Illinois Merchandise Mart.
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Speedy Wheeler Saves the Day and Wins a Bike

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Milt Youngren (signed)
Inker(s): Milt Youngren (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement in comic strip form for Arnold, Schwinn & Co.

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