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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 [w:Superheroes|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.