The collection contains original stories as well as short stories of already established crime comics series.

Local police told retailers that it was illegal because it was a "crime comic."

These are war, science fiction, western, or crime comics, including titles formerly belonging to the WildStorm imprint.

The Golden Age of crime comics was effectively over.

In 1949 he introduced legislation to criminalize the publication, distribution, and sale of crime comics.

"An attitude which I have found most frequently engendered by crime comics is an attitude of brutality," he wrote.

That killed off horror comics, crippled crime comics and transformed Mad from a comic book into a humor magazine.

This not only affected the popular horror and crime comics, but even the teen romance market.

Circa 1941, he began illustrating for crime comics.