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Summary
Mock up cover of a 1940s crime comic. Images such as this gained popularity following World War Two, when the superhero genre began to fall out of fashion. Drawing on the pulps of the 1930s for inspiration, crime comic covers featured violent, macabre and lurid imagery.

Educational purpose: to illustrate terms such as crime comic, hard-boiled, detective fiction, etc. Artwork by Simon Kirby, released under cc-zero. Author agrees that Commons is not censored and that international wikimedia projects have the right to use this image.