Crime and Punishment (1948 Lev Gleason) 16

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $295.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Pedigree: Davis Crippen "D" Copy Davis Crippen ("D" Copy). Includes COA. Label #4603008001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by C.H. Moore, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. An anonymous tip brings down Lester "The Louse" Diller, king of the early bootleggers, who hides his hooch in a sauerkraut juice factory. Mob kingpenWhitey Hicks and Burt Mott battle to the death to control the docks. Bank clerk Edward Ingram invests in stolen securities and collects bullets, in a story featuring actual use of the line "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" Cover and first page feature a photo endorsement from police Captain Felix Lynch, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." This endorsement was later cited (negatively) in the text of the classic anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent. Also featuring a vintage ad for the "U-Fly-It" flight simulator game. Lester "The Louse" Diller; On the Level; Double-Crossing Whitey Hicks and His Enemy in Crime, Burt Mott; Thug-Uglies; Don't Let Reformers Kid You...; The White Fedora Murders; Laugh These Off!; Edward Ingram. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.