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Gangsters Can't Win (1948) 2

  • Issue #2
    Gangsters Can't Win (1948) 2
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #3719212008
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. High-class Eddie Bentz is secretly a criminal mastermind. Early New York ganglord Biff Ellison, of the Five Points Gang and Gopher Gang, gains a reputation for his dapper clothing and propensity for sudden violence. Harry Tracy is the last surviving member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Eddie Bentz alias the Ghost; Basil Banghart; From the Farm to Alcatraz; Black Jack Rule: The Story of "Biff" Ellison: Do the Dead Return?; Murder Pay$ Off; Oregon's Trigger-Happy Killer: Harry Tracy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.