Crime Can't Win
Marvel · 1950–1952 · 12 issues
About the series
From 1950 to 1952, Marvel (then Atlas Comics) published Crime Can't Win, a 12-issue crime comic that leaned into moralistic, anti-crime storytelling. Writer Carl Wessler anchored the series, while artists Jerry Robinson, Bill La Cava, and Allen Bellman brought a gritty, shadowy visual style to its tales of lawmen and criminals. The series is a notable artifact of the pre-Comics Code era, reflecting the industry's shift toward cautionary crime narratives before the clampdown on the genre.