Headline Comics #23

1949-01-01 · 51 pages

This anthology issue features multiple detective and crime stories, including "Crime Never Pays," which depicts Professor Webster being caught in a web of crime and murder, leading to his arrest and conviction; and a historical narrative about Guy Fawkes in the court of King James I, where conspirators plot his death, with Thomas Winters eventually sailing to France to secure him. A third story involves a reporter interviewing a prisoner named Terry Druggans in jail, where the prisoner attempts to use the interview to escape. The issue emphasizes moral lessons about crime's inevitable consequences.

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