Dark Horse Archives Crime Does Not Pay-the true-crime comic series that enjoyed massive circulation throughout the forties and fifties-was a hit with readers but an easy target for Seduction of the Innocent author Dr. Fredric Wertham! The 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hammered Crime Does Not Pay for its graphic scenes of violence, ultimately leading to the formation of the rigid Comics Code Authority. Issues #34 to #37 of this visceral, provocative series are now collected into one fine, head-walloping hardcover, with a new foreword by modern crime maestro David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Murder Me Dead)! Gun-toting wiseguys and switchblade-swinging sociopaths can murder their way to the top for a little while, but they learn a hard lesson when justice finally straps them into the hot seat: CRIME DOES NOT PAY! Original series editors Charles Biro and Bob Wood contributed to the stories collected within, with artwork by Richard "Dick" Briefer, Bob Q. Siegel, Rudy Palais, Alan Mandel,...