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Crime Must Pay the Penalty #16 (1950)

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 1950 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
The Gang of a Thousand Faces
8 pp · crime

When a botched robbery leaves Vince Crosse's face burned beyond recognition, he discovers an unexpected salvation in a master mask-maker—and a dangerous inspiration for crime. Armed with a collection of lifelike masks, Vince recruits his gang to become the "Gang of a Thousand Faces," using shifting identities to confound police and pull off increasingly audacious heists. But as success breeds ambition, tensions within the mob threaten to explode, forcing Vince to navigate treachery from within his own ranks.

Kingpin of the hot Hot-Rods
8 pp · crime

Felix Brill runs the most ruthless car-theft operation in the country—a perfectly compartmentalized network where even his own gang members don't know who he is. When a small-time thief named Carlo Zelka gets pinned and bailed out by mysterious forces, Lieutenant Drexel sees a chance to finally crack the ring by turning Zelka into bait. What unfolds is a dangerous game of bluff and double-cross as the police and Brill's organization both try to manipulate the same desperate man.

Bean-Ball Boomerang
7 pp · crime

A washed-up pitcher with a violent temper turns to crime when his reckless on-field behavior costs him his baseball career. Martin Daly builds a ruthless gambling racket by forcing independent baseball pool operators into his organization, then kidnaps his former manager Joe Lucas to settle an old grudge—only to find his scheme unraveling when the police close in. This tale of ambition twisted into corruption shows how one man's refusal to play by the rules catches up with him.

Blue Blood Runs Red
7 pp · crime

James Morgan—calling himself "the Duke"—is a lethal British gangster with refined manners and a monocle who insinuates himself into Charley Beecher's Chicago mob, quickly proving his worth as a trigger-man. Ambitious and ruthless, the Duke orchestrates a takeover that sets the underworld ablaze with gang wars, but his hunger for power grows only more dangerous as he sets his sights on rival territory. When his own men begin to turn against him, the stage is set for a reckoning that will test whether even a killer's cunning can outrun the consequences of his own greed.

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