A Notorious Charles Biro Cover on Crime Does Not Pay #43, at Auction

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Perhaps probably the most infamous comedian ebook title of all time, Crime Does Not Pay featured some wild covers by Charles Biro and others.

Crime Does Not Pay is likely one of the most notorious comics from the golden age. Looking for violent content material and stuff that will get you in hassle in case your dad and mom noticed you studying it? This was the ebook for you. Published by Lev Gleason beginning within the Forties, that is THE crime comedian. This is the one that basically began all of it and one which was used for instance to create The Comics Code. This cowl, concern #43, taking bids at Heritage Auctions right this moment, encompasses a husband coming again to his spouse in…let’s simply say, unhealthy form. Man, this collection had the good covers. Check it out beneath.

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“Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Bernstein, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Woody Hamlton, Vernon Henkel, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay, was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. An unhinged circus clown spurned by a woman after making a declaration of love (in full clown regalia), then murders her (still in full clown regalia). The infamous Burke and Hare get jobs providing corpses to early medical schools, but when they run out of bodies, they start making fresh ones. Drunken med-school reject “Doc” Moran becomes the underworld’s favorite physician. Also featuring a vintage PSA about recognizing honorably discharged veterans. The Bookkeeping Bandit; Case of the Love Sick Clown; Ghouls’ Gold; The Folly of Johnny Bananas; The Case of the Impossible Suicide; Doctor of Evil; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.”

I’ve all the time loved the covers of this collection. The tales have additionally been good reads, however the covers are so iconic and enjoyable for the period. If you wish to bid on this concern, go right here. Check out the entire different books on this public sale while you’re there as nicely.