Relive the days when gangsters ruled the streets in this gripping collection of notorious vintage pre-Code crime comics!
True life criminals Al Capone, Legs Diamond, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and John Dillinger are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze. These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits, living outside the law until getting their just desserts in the end.
Features masterful creators Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Fred Guardineer, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Bernie Krigstein, Mort Meskin, Bob Powell, John Prentice, Mike Sekowsky, Leonard Starr, Marvin Stein, Alex Toth, and many others. These Senate-investigated stories are fully restored-over 20 full comic stories in all!
Contents
- Al Capone! (Famous Gangsters #1, Apr. 1951, Avon)
- Lucky Luciano (Sensational Police Cases #2, Mar./Apr. 1954, Avon)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (Justice Traps The Guilty #61, Apr. 1954, Prize)
- John Dillinger (Sensational Police Cases #2)
- "Dutch" Schultz--Spawn of Evil (Sensational Police Cases #2)
- Master Forgers (Authentic Police Cases #7, Apr. 1950, St. John)
- How the "Masked Blackjack" Proved His Innocence (Authentic Police Cases #7)
- Hoodlum From Hollywood (Trapped! #2, Dec. 1954, Ace)
- Back-Room Academy (Real Clue Crime Comics #59, Jan. 1951, Hillman)
- The Man Who Lost Himself (Wanted Comics #24, Jan. 1950, Orbit)
- Blind as a Bat (Crime and Punishment #32, Nov. 1950, Lev Gleason)
- Personal Favor (Justice Traps the Guilty #90, Dec. 1957-Jan. 1958)
- Manhunt for Joe Becker (Crime and Punishment #58, Jan. 1953)
- Death From the Fairway (Crime and Punishment #32)
- Felix the Rustler (Real Clue Crime Comics #67, Sept. 1951)
- Whistle-Stop Surprise (Real Clue Crime Comics #67)
- Violence in Venice! (T-Man #5, May 1952, Quality)
- Wilbur Underhill--Maniac Killer! (Police Line-up #2, Dec. 1951, Avon)
- Cash Box Cassie (Real Clue Crime Comics #30, Aug. 1948, Hillman)
- The Love-Sick Chauffeur (Real Clue Crime Comics #59)
- His Master's Teeth (Real Clue Crime Comics #59)
- The Jackal (Wanted Comics #24)
- War on the Streets (Crime and Punishment #66, Mar. 1954, Lev Gleason)
- Dead Man's Witness (Wanted Comics #32, Dec. 1950, Orbit)
- Gang Doctor (Wanted Comics #32)
- Opening page (Police Line-up #2, Dec. 1951, Avon)
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