Best of Crime Does Not Pay

A short-lived, two-issue revival of Lev Gleason's legendary crime comic, Best of Crime Does Not Pay collects classic stories from the 1940s and early 1950s. This series reprints the gritty, sensational tales that made the original Crime Does Not Pay a notorious bestseller, showcasing the unflinching, pre-Code crime narratives that sparked public outcry and the eventual creation of the Comics Code Authority. While the series itself is brief, it serves as a compact archive of the influential, hard-boiled work most associated with writer/artist Charles Biro.