Crime Detective Comics (Vol. 2)

    (Hillman, 1950-1952)
©1951 Hillman Periodicals, Inc.

This classic pre-code comic repeatedly admonished its readers that “the only true thing about crime is punishment!” in the hope that “the youth of America will learn to know crime for what it really is: a sad, black, dead-end road of fools and tears.” And the series had no lack of stories to drive that lesson home for its readers: from that of a trigger-happy gun man who tries to double-cross his boss to a hypochondriac hit man who quite unexpectedly, ends up being killed by the same infection he used to kill a foe. Many of the tales draw from and have allusions to classic crime literature such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Hound of the Baskervilles” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”
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