Beschreibung:

Good (2.0). Several small chips and short creased tears (up to 1/2") to top edge of front cover, top edge of covers and pages dampsoiled, spine a bit rolled, single staple pulled. Light tan pages. Cover: Charles Biro. Art: Norman Maurer, Rudy Palais, Jack Alderman, uncredited others. Overstreet: "Classic electrocution cover." GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.5 sold for $225 in July 2022. "Gambling, alcohol, sex, shooting, brawling, knifing — Charles Biro packed in nearly everything that mid-century America considered sinful... All that was missing from Biro's first cover onward through the comic's first several years, was restraint. Unlike most comic books that dealt with outlawry of various sorts, Crime Does Not Pay focused almost entirely on lawbreakers and their crimes, rather than crime-fighters and law enforcement. Biro — a street thinker with a grandiose streak, unskilled, shameless, and let loose by a social-idealist publisher — became the Bosch of comic books and made Crime Does Not Pay an overgrown field of unearthly delights... in which nothing was prohibited." — David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. FSG: 2008, p. 64. Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to [email protected] . A limited edition of 100 softcover and 6 hardcover catalogues are available. 140 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact [email protected] .