Donald Trump's Role Model...AL CAPONE!

Perhaps the most notorious gangster of all time is Al Capone...

...who was so ruthless and cunning that the only crime The Law could ever prove he committed was income tax fraud!

No wonder disgraced, twice-impeached, ex-President Don "The Con" Trump admires him so!

Bet Don da Con wishes he could deal with problems like this, eh?

In the Days of the Mob #1 (1971) was a b/w "true crime" magazine, featuring graphic dramatizations of real-life criminals' stories...as you've just seen.

Regrettably, it only ran one issue, though the complete second edition was prepared and ready to go to the printer when the ax fell.
The title was edited/written/illustrated by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.

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Crime College PUBLIC ENEMIES "Graduation for Murder!"

It's June and school graduations are happening every day this month!
But some "graduates" flunked basic civics, like this couple from DS Publishing's Public Enemies V1N2 (1948)!

Though allegedly based on true events, due to the name and locale change for this never-reprinted story, I've been unable to verify tale's authenticity!
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It's Christmas Crime! DYNAMIC COMICS "Manhunters: Frozen Corpses for Christmas" & JUSTICE COMICS "Murder for Christmas"

Here's a true tale of cold-hearted killing at Christmastime...

...that was told twice in graphic form in tales only a year apart!

Both the writer and artist(s) for this never-reprinted tale from Superior's Dynamic Comics #21 (1947) are unknown to this day.

A year later, penciler Gene Colan and inker Sy Grudko retold the story in Atlas' Justice Comics #4 (1948)!

This wasn't exactly a "hot off the presses" story...even in the 1940s.

The murders had occurred in 1899!

Maclean's, the Time Magazine of Canada had run the story as the premiere entry of a new historical series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (aka "Mounties") in 1930, renewing public interest in the murders!
Here's a LINK to that issue!
It's likely the editors and/or writers of both comics came across the story while researching potential plotlines for their true-crime comics!
Bonus: here's a LINK to a recent article with a lot more info that wasn't available to the writer of the 1930 story!

REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES "America's Most Heinous Crime"

150 years ago today...

...what was, until 1963, America's most henious crime occured...

Published in Hillman's Real Clue Crime Stories v2#8 (1947), this Bob Fujitani-illustrated tale wasn't considered important enough to be given the cover illustration...or even a blurb on the cover!

The writer of this never-reprinted tale is, regrettably, unknown.

BTW, when President John F Kennedy was assassinated almost 100 years later, that event was labeled "America's Most Heinous Crime".

IN THE DAYS OF THE MOB "Ma's Boys"

Yeah, Mother's Day was last Sunday, but we were in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes tale...

...but we'll make up for it now with this tale about the most evil mother of them all!

In the Days of the Mob #1 (1971) was a b/w "true crime" magazine, featuring dramatizations of real-life criminals' stories...as you've just seen.
Regrettably, it only ran one issue, though the complete second edition was prepared and ready to go when the ax fell.
The title was edited/written/illustrated by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.
It's never been reprinted.

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