Digital Comic Museum - Crime Does Not Pay 022 (first issue)


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first issue of this ground breaking series - With WAREAGLE's only appearance to boot!
Quietriot scans

29-October-2010 10:20 pm	\|
Username:	glammazon
Comment:	Ironically, the man who created CRIME DOES NOT PAY went to jail later on for manslaughter.
12-March-2011 4:22 pm	\|
Username:	Yoc
Comment:	Ouch! That's gotta hurt a hand!
28-March-2013 1:05 am	\|
Username:	gperez
Comment:	the actual story is nuts, some guy tried to pay him to have sex with a girl he had tied up in a room he said no, and when he got up the next day the guy had been arrested

Issue: #22
Published: July 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Color: Four Color Interiors; Full Color Covers Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing, 1942, page 316, registration number B541075.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro \| Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:	Crime

Text Article (1 page)	Crime Does Not Pay a Completely New Kind of Magazine
Credits:	Script: Lev Gleason (signed) \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld
Featuring:	Crime Kings
Credits:	Script: Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed) \| Pencils: Harry Lucey [as Lucey] (signed) \| Inks: Harry Lucey
Characters:	Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (1897-1944) Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplin (1891-1923) Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (1899-1947) Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (1893-1927) I. "Danny Field" Friedman (died 1939) Irving Penn (c1897-1939) Louis Cohen (1904-1939)(unnamed In Story)

Comic Story (10 pages)	Wild Bill Hickok
Credits:	Script: Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed) \| Pencils: Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed) \| Inks: Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)
Genre:	Historical Western-frontier
Characters:	Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) Tom Smith (1830-1870) John Wesley "Wes Harding" Hardin (1853-1895) Ben Thompson (1843-1884) Phil Cole (1839-1871) Mike Williams (died 1871)(appears Here As Mike McWilliams)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue
Credits:	Pencils: Frank Volp \| Inks: Frank Volp
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	The Esposito Brothers

Comic Story (3 pages)	The Saga of Harpshead Road
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro ? \| Pencils: Carl Hubbell [as Hub] (signed) \| Inks: Carl Hubbell [as Hub] (signed) \| Letters: Ed Hamilton ?
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Big Harp (dies)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Two-Legged Rats
Credits:	Script: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed) \| Pencils: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed) \| Inks: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Jon Overs (dies)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom
Credits:	Script: Bob Wood ? \| Pencils: George Tuska ? \| Inks: George Tuska ? \| Letters: Ed Hamilton ?
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Zilla (dies)

Text Story (2 pages)	Hollywood's Panther Man, the Jersey Devil
Featuring:	Crime Corner
Credits:	Script: Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (credited) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes
Credits:	Script: Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed) \| Pencils: Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed) \| Inks: Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed)
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Dick Williams

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Blackout Murder Mystery
Featuring:	Be a Detective
Credits:	Pencils: Norman Maurer ? \| Inks: Norman Maurer ?
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (2 pages)	The Bond Drive
Featuring:	Dickie Dean
Credits:	Script: Bob Montana ? \| Pencils: Bob Montana (signed) \| Inks: Bob Montana (signed)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Bob Montana Cameo

Text Article (1 page)	Cilicia
Featuring:	Stamps
Credits:	Script: Sidney M. Elias

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	The War Eagle
Synopsis:	Although struck down with infantile paraylsis, wealthy Bill Reed, after being put down by a college rival for his sweetheart's hand, develops a set of wings, and, over a period of two years, perfects them and is able to walk again. He dedicates his life to serving mankind: foiling hijackers, rounding up public enemies, and so on until a foe emerges called the Wrench, who had suffered injuries from grabbing an incendiary bomb in the 1st World War, and who threatens the S.S. Atlantic.
Credits:	Script: Alan Mandel ? \| Pencils: Alan Mandel (signed) \| Inks: Alan Mandel (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The War Eagle [Bill Reed] (introduction) Mrs. Reed (Bill's Mother) Bonnie (Bill's Sweetheart) Roger Currians Klein (crew Member On S.S. Atlantic, Death) Kelly (watchman) Mike (Policeman) The Wrench (villain, Introduction, Death) The Nazis (villains)

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