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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published August 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Charles Biro; Bob Wood

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils Charles Biro (signed)
Inks Charles Biro (signed)

15 page story "Peter Treadway"

Characters Mr. Crime (host)
Genre Crime
Pencils George Tuska (signed)
Inks George Tuska (signed)

1 page If I Knew Then What I Know Now- letters page

Letters Typeset
Notes Excerpts from letters from prisoners to Crime Does Not Pay.

5 page story "Her Name Was Clarence"

Genre Crime
Pencils Ed Moore (signed)
Inks Ed Moore (signed)

1 page Crime Quiz filler

Genre Fact

7 page story "Mike Malloy The Man Who Wouldn't Die!"

Genre Crime

1 page What's On Your Mind? letters page

Script ?
Letters typeset

2 page text story "Death Thumbs A Ride"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset

Half page On The Level filler

Genre Fact
Script ?

Half page This'll Kill You story

Genre Humor
Script Dick Ericson
Pencils Dick Ericson (signed)
Inks Dick Ericson (signed)

9 page Who Dunnit? story

Genre Crime
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed)
Notes The bottom half of the last story page is a "Stamp Page" by Sidney M. Elias.