Crime Does Not Pay #126

Crime Does Not Pay #126 This issue contains two stories. "Kill-Crazy Maniac" depicts the final showdown on February 1933 at Gordon's home base, where the resourceful Kivac battles Ted Gordon and his gang in a shootout that ends with the tank blowing and their barn will go up like paper, resulting in Gordon's death clutching the earth in his dead hand. "Banjo" Blore's Companion tells of Fred "Banjo" Blore, a drunk who remembered only the men who beaten him up three years before, and began a drunken rampage of holdups and murders across twenty-four hours; after Blore and his companion Ted Freer kidnap and attempt to control the underworld, state troopers arrive to find Blore dead in the distillery, meeting a fate he deserved. The second story follows Mike Adler, a common hood in 1926 Chicago who controlled gang territory on the North and South Sides and made bold plays to move up, eventually leading to his ruthless shooting down in an abandoned West Side spot, after which Albert Dell takes over the gang and rules the roost of gangland until the Big Boss kills him, revealing that crime does not pay.