Crime Does Not Pay #61

"Clay Fogelman Meanest Man of Crime" in Crime Does Not Pay #61 (1948) delivers a gritty, no-frills look at Johnny Lazia’s ruthless ascent from street-level menace to underworld kingpin, all rendered in stark, hard-edged art by Dan Barry. The story’s grim momentum builds through Lazia’s violent consolidation of power—until a final, brutal reckoning with the once-untouchable Baron Bentley. Cover by Charles Biro captures the tale’s grim intensity with a stark, shadowed portrait of the man whose name would become synonymous with fear.