Evidently the long time editor of CRIME DOES NOT PAY, Bob Wood, did indeed forget it. In the 1950's he took a clothes iron and beat to death a woman in a NYC hotel during a drunken orgy. He went to jail for several years and upon his release was soon murdered.
I remember as a kid reading the NYC newspapers and being impressed at the lurid scandal about this comicbook editor.
Apparently, Charles Biro was the cover artist, but there is a definite similarity to Eisner. Those hands in the foreground resemble "the Octopus" in "The Spirit."
Evidently the long time editor of CRIME DOES NOT PAY, Bob Wood, did indeed forget it. In the 1950's he took a clothes iron and beat to death a woman in a NYC hotel during a drunken orgy. He went to jail for several years and upon his release was soon murdered.
ReplyDeleteI remember as a kid reading the NYC newspapers and being impressed at the lurid scandal about this comicbook editor.
Now is that a hardboiled, toughguy story or what?
That cover art on first issue looks a lot like Eisner's work.
ReplyDeleteApparently, Charles Biro was the cover artist, but there is a definite similarity to Eisner. Those hands in the foreground resemble "the Octopus" in "The Spirit."
ReplyDeleteThanks for these great covers! I have started reading some of the (Lev Gleason) comics online.
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