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Crime Does Not Pay #59
This anthology issue presents two crime stories: "Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy No. 1 (1931-1936)" documents the violent career of the notorious gangster, detailing his crimes of murder, kidnapping, and robbery before his capture by J. Edgar Hoover's G-men; and "Cut Rate Murder," which exposes Brooklyn's murder-incorporated and the WhyoGang, depicting their organized system of contract killing with prices for various violent acts, culminating in a narrative about criminals operating within the underworld. Both stories serve the magazine's stated purpose of exposing real crimes to demonstrate that crime does not pay.