Lev Gleason, assisted by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, were the masters of crime comics in the last 1940s and well into the 1950s. Their comics all preached the futility of breaking the law, and the tragic ends of those who don't heed that all important advice that Crime Does Not Pay Ð but along the way they made sure that the excitement of gangsters and gun molls, the thrill of the chase, and the belief in the wit and misguided courage of the criminal might just be enough! CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (74 issues, 1948-1955) is classic crime from a bygone era, and Gwandanaland / Midcentury Comics has it all for you!