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Perhaps the most notorious comic book title of all time, Crime Does Not Pay featured some wild covers by Charles Biro and others.

Crime Does Not Pay #33 is one of the most-collected issues of the most notorious series in comic book history.

Though organized crime tends to be a boys' club, there have been a slate of deadly women who have broken into its ranks.

The 1953 Dick Ayers cover of Manhunt #14 is an example of the strange history of the 1950s comic book publishing scene.

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

The Promise Collection is a group of high grade comics from 1939-1952, & in 1950, DC Comics launched Strange Adventures with Destination Moon

The Promise Collection is a group of high grade comics from 1939-1952, and in Q3 1948 the industry launched a huge number of new series.

The Promise Collection is a group of high grade comics from 1939-1952, and the first half of 1946 features initial fallout of the atomic era.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the spirit of the American tradition of the season, today we’re going to explore the stories of two Missouri men whose New Year’s Resolutions probably once included “Give up crime” and “Hide from the F.B.I.” This is the sort of thing that used to be very easy to do in Oregon, which is actually the only state (so far as I have been able to learn) to have ever had one of its U.S. Senators serve under an alias which he adopted while running from law...