Gangsters Can’t Win

    (D.S., 1948-1949)
™ and ©1949 D.S. Publishing Company

Gangsters Can’t Win, a minor late-1940’s crime title from tiny D.S. Publishing, specialized in dark, terse, brutal, and allegedly true tales of crime and punishment. The general tone of these stories is that fate or conscience will eventually bring down the guilty, even if they elude the machinery of justice.

Tightly told and well-illustrated, the stories in Gangsters Can’t Win owe a lot to the hardboiled pulp writing popularized by Black Mask and other crime magazines, and to the visual look of postwar thrillers and suspense movies. Six eight-page features and the obligatory text-only story fill out each issue.
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