Crime Does Not Pay #22

(July 1942)

Crime Does Not Pay A Completely New Kind of Magazine (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lev Gleason (signed)

Letters:

Typeset

The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld (Table of Contents)

Crime Kings / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Wood ? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)

Pencils:

Harry Lucey [as Lucey] (signed)

Inks:

Harry Lucey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

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)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

Story is noted as "Disgrace to the Human Race" #1. Baby Faced Nelson is announced as "Disgrace to the Human Race" #2 appearing in the next issue.

Wild Bill Hickok (Table of Contents)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Wood? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)

Pencils:

Bob Wood? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)

Inks:

Bob Wood? [as Woody Hamilton] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

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)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

signature in lower right hand corner of splash page.
Next issue blurb promises the story of Pancho Villa.

Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Volp

Inks:

Frank Volp

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

The Esposito Brothers

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

Volp is credited on this series by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the artwork here, with marked, bony cheeks and mouth often rendered in two short lines, can be found in his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason).

The Saga of Harpshead Road (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Charles Biro?

Pencils:

Carl Hubbell [as Hub] (signed)

Inks:

Carl Hubbell [as Hub] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton ?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Big Harp (dies)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Two-Legged Rats (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)

Pencils:

Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)

Inks:

Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Jon Overs (dies)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Wood ?

Pencils:

George Tuska ?

Inks:

George Tuska ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton ?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Zilla (dies)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Hollywood's Panther Man, the Jersey Devil (Table of Contents)

Crime Corner / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Wood? [as Woody Hamilton] (credited)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed)

Pencils:

Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed)

Inks:

Dick Briefer [as Richard Norman] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Dick Williams

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

The Blackout Murder Mystery (Table of Contents)

Be a Detective / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Norman Maurer ?

Inks:

Norman Maurer ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

The solution appears on the last page of the War Eagle story.

[The Bond Drive] (Table of Contents)

Dickie Dean / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Montana ?

Pencils:

Bob Montana (signed)

Inks:

Bob Montana (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Montana cameo

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

War Bond promo

Cilicia (Table of Contents)

Stamps / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sidney M. Elias

Indexer Notes

Stamp column with stamp ads.

Steel Grey Wings Over America (Table of Contents)

War Eagle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alan Mandel

Pencils:

Alan Mandel (signed)

Inks:

Alan Mandel (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

War Eagle [Bill Reed]; Mrs. Reed; The Wrench (villain, intro, dies)

Reprints:

• in Complete Book of True Crime Comics (Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944 series) #[nn] (No Date [circa 1944])

Indexer Notes

Only appearance of the War Eagle. (c) Alan Mandel