Realistic action and adventures stories involving the solving or
commiting of crimes. Crime Suspense Stories, True Crime like
Authentic Crime Cases , Big Town, Brenda Starr , Claire Voyant,
Clue Comics ,
Crime Exposed , Crime Must Stop , Crime on the Waterfront,
Crimefigters, Crime and Justice, Crime Must Pay the. penalty ,
Crime mysteries , Secret Mysteries ,
Amazing Mysteries, Crime Patrol , Crime and Punishment, Crime
Reporter,
Crimes Women, Crime Smashers, Crime SuspenStories, Criminals on
the Run , Mr.District Attorney, Down with Crime,Famous
Gangsters, Famous Crimes, Fugitives from Justice,
Gang Busters, Gangsters Can't Win, Gangsters n Gun Molls, Green
Hornet,
Guns Against Gangs, Headline Comics, Inside Crime, Justice
Comics, Justice Traps the Guilty, Kerry Drake, Lawbreakers
Always loose, ManHunt, Martin Kane, Murder Incorporated, On the
Spot, Pay-Off Comics, Perfect-Crime, Phantom Lady, Police
Comics,
Police Lineup, Police Trap, Prison Break, Public Enemies, Punch
Comics, Racket Squad,
Smash Comics, Suspense Detective, The Saint, The Spirit, True
Crime, Underworld ,
Underworld Crime, Women Outlaws, War against crime, Young King
Cole,
Crime comics are a genre of American comic books popular
about the lives of actual criminals taken from newspaper
accounts, history books, and occasionally, as advertised,
"actual police files.The genre is marked by a moralistic
editorial tone and graphic depictions of violence and criminal
activity.
The comic strip Dick Tracy was
perhaps the first to focus on the character and plots of a vast
array of gangsters. making effective use of grotesque villains,
actual police methods, and shocking depictions of violence. Dick
Tracy inspired many features starring a variety of police,
detectives, and lawyers .
Beginning in 1947, publishers began issuing new titles in the
crime comics genre, Mostly in the manner of
fictional noir-style stories of murder and
revenge with stunning art and tightly plotted twist-endings.
After the imposition of the Comics Code and the cancellation of
the majority of crime-themed titles, U.S. crime comics went into
a serious decline. andt it was
not until the advent of Creepy and Eerie in
1964 that the occasional crime story in the style
or violence of the comics of the 1940s and 1950s
appeared. |
