Pay-Off (1948 D.S. Publishing) 1

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Cover by Al Camy. Stories and art by Al Camy, Bob Butts, Louis Dresser, Louis Schroeder, Bob Jenney, Harry Anderson, Richard Case and Bernard Sachs. Like many of DS Publishing's crime comics, Pay-Off transformed slowly from violent pre-Code gangster stories to milder mysteries featuring heroic detectives. Sonny Sloan faces a life of looking over his shoulder, after he informs on his cronies to get out of Sing Sing. After an accident costs him some fingers, Eddie turns to crime, but his constant kid gloves are a dead giveaway. At 15, Bummy gets an early start on his life of crime in New York's Hell's Kitchen. Stool Pigeon; The Murders on the Rue Brevet; Killer Dillers; The Kid Glove Killer; Death to the Blackmailer; The Guilty Conscience; Diamond Lil of Otsego; The Swimming Pool Murder; Tough Guy; The Boy Who Outsmarted Himself. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.