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Issue: Crime Does Not Pay #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1942
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Issues: #23 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: 07/20/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 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, 1942, page 316, registration number B552821.
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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
Inker(s): Charles Biro
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): John Dillinger; Baby Face Nelson; Jim Hamilton
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Pages: 1
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The True Story of John Dillinger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Woody Hamilton?
Penciller(s): Woody Hamilton
Inker(s): Woody Hamilton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime Kings
Character(s): John Dillinger (introduction, death); Melvin Purvis (introduction)
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Pages: 11
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John Crandon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Cop Hero of the Month
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Baby Face Nelson and the Mason City Bank Robbery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: I: George "Baby Face" Nelson (D)
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Pancho Villa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Pancho Villa (introduction, death)
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Pages: 10
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The Ridiculous Riddle of the Murdered Major

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Maurer
Inker(s): Norman Maurer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The White-Masked Terror

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Woody Hamilton
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3
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Three Isolated Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Briefer?
Penciller(s): Dick Briefer (Richard Norman)
Inker(s): Dick Briefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 6
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Two-Legged Rats

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Montana ?
Penciller(s): Bob Montana
Inker(s): Bob Montana
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Joshua the Second [Franz Creffield]; George Mitchell; Esther Mitchell
Synopsis: Creffield starts a religious cult among the women of Corvalis, Oregon.
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In Content Item: FlagBlackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] published September 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Franz Creffield (1871 - 1906), George Mitchell (1883 - 1906) and Esther Mitchell (1888 - 1914).
The years of Joshua's group "The Church of the Bride of Christ" was 1903 - 1906.
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The Monster of Munsterberg

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Hubbell
Inker(s): Carl Hubbell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Pop Klein (introduction, death)
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Pages: 3
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The Fire Fiends of Missouri

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alan Mandel (signed)
Inker(s): Alan Mandel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: A hotel arson results in seven deaths.
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In Content Item: FlagBlackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer #[nn] published September 2011
as The Fire Fiends of Missouri! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5

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