Crime Does Not Pay comic books issue 100
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Issue #100
Published Jul 1951 by Lev Gleason.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Painted cover by Bob Fujitani. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Fred Guardineer, Al McWilliams, Dick Rockwell, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Tough private eye Chip Gardner investigates a deadly woman in red, featuring another action-packed painted cover by Bob Fujitani and a story possibly written by Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow. A woman with gambling debts plots to use gas to murder her father, who is smell-blind, in another off-the-wall story with an ironic twist ending. A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed a treasure-hunting sea captain aboard his ship. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Chip Gardner: The Case of the Jittery Patient; The Smell of Death; Carney Couldn't Squeal!; Mission: Murder!; Uncle Sam Has a Green Thumb; Who Dunnit?: Who Killed Rex Gotha? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
