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4 unusual facts about Crime comics


Charles Biro

For Lev Gleason, Biro helped to create the Crime comics genre with the landmark title Crime Does Not Pay (1942–1955), which he edited along with Bob Wood.

Francis Oliver Haddock

The robbery and aftermath was featured as “The Millen-Faber Case” in Issue #24 of True Crime Comics, published in November, 1942.

Scalped

Scalped is a critically acclaimed 60 issue crime/western comic book series written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by R. M. Guéra, published monthly by Vertigo Comics.

Strange Suspense Stories

In a quirk common to the publisher, Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories started not with issue #6 (continuing the Fawcett numbering) nor with issue #1, but with issue #16, continuing the numbering of a cancelled crime/horror series, Lawbreakers Suspense Stories—which itself had continued the numbering of the crime comic Lawbreakers.



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