CRIME DOES NOT PAY #43 * CGC 2.5 * Fall Guy for MURDER

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Title: CRIME DOES NOT PAY No. 43
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Publisher:Lev Gleason [Indicia: Comic House, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1946
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CGC certified: Good (2.5). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Charles Biro. Stories and art: Robert Bernstein, Rudy Palais, Jack Alderman, Vernon Henckel. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A .5 sold for $70 in September 2020, and a 4.5 sold for $300 in August 2020.

Fall Guy for Murder: A getaway car speeds off as a gory corpse topples through an open door, a note pinned to its chest with a bloody shiv: "I'm a dirty rat and got what was coming to me." This brutal image of gangland violence may have been swiped from the closing scene of Warner Brothers' 1931 film "The Public Enemy," in which Jimmy Cagney suffers a similar fate.

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