Underworld Crime

Underworld Crime was a short-lived but potent Fawcett crime comic that ran for seven issues from 1952 to 1953, a time when the genre was at its peak. Writers John Martin, Herb Gartner, and Jess Cole, alongside artists George Evans and Maurice Gutwirth, delivered gritty, no-nonsense tales of mobsters, heists, and hardboiled justice. It stands as a solid, unvarnished example of the pre-Comics Code crime wave, capturing the raw edge of the era before censorship reshaped the industry.