"Dick Tracy" inspired many features starring a variety of police, detectives, and lawyers but the most memorable devices of the strip would not be featured as prominently until the publication of "Crime Does Not Pay" in 1942.As edited and mostly written by Charles Biro (with Bob Wood), "Crime Does Not Pay" was a 64-page (later 52-page) anthology comic book published by Lev Gleason Publications beginning in 1942 and running for 147 issues until 1955.