![]() ![]() Holmes the Master of Murder Castle” are among those that are definitely true. “The Kill-Crazy Fleagle Brothers,” “ Baby Face Nelson Vs. Though a good number of the stories are easily verified as factual, some are not. “All True Crime Stories,” reads the banner on the cover of every issue. Dark Horse Comics collects 4 issues from 1947 of this enthralling title in Crime Does Not Pay Archives Volume 8. This title boasted “the widest range of appeal” with brutal stories of crime and punishment, often based on fact, with no blood or bullet holes stricken from the page. ![]() Not so with Crime Does Not Pay from Lev Gleason Publications. When the heroes at DC, Timely, and other publishers were not up against mad scientists or magical nemeses, the down to earth criminals they fought were a pale shade of the criminals in the real world. Well before the Comics Code Authority was established, comic book publishers in the 1940s were already partly in the business of censoring themselves. ![]()
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