Charles Biro Archives

According to one comics industry legend as related in Blab! #6 (among other places) it was Charles Biro who was the originator and driving force behind the Crime Does Not Pay concept, laying out the idea for his Lev Gleason co-editor Bob Wood in a Broadway bar.  If that's true, the title was a long time[...]

Zip Comics #17 featured the end of the Scarlet Avenger in the Golden Age, making way for teen humor character Wilbur Wilkin ahead of the debut of Archie.  This issue also features a "superhero horror" style cover by Charles Biro of the kind that he and Irv Novick had made a trademark at MLJ An[...]

Wood and his other co-editor and cover artist Charles Biro put crime comics on the map Crime Does Not Pay was a comic book title destined to be notorious, and issue #33 is an excellent example of the series There's a Crime Does Not Pay #33 Eldon Pedigree (Lev Gleason, 1944) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream[...]

More recently he was used by Erik Larsen in the Savage Dragon comics, retroactively establishing him as the first superhero of the Image Universe. Daredevil #24 by Charles Biro And here is the first, and only, Daredevil/Punch And Judy crossover, It is the only use of Punch and Judy in an American superhero comic book I can[...]

Publisher Lev Gleason, creator/editor Charles Biro, and creator/editor Bob Wood are arguably the instigators of the Pre-Code era.  Gleason's Crime Does Not Pay is the most notorious comic book title in American comics history, and likely helped trigger the Pre-Code era more than any other single title.  But while the publisher was best known for[...]

Many of the comic books of the early Golden Age were a response to the rising chaos of a world at war, but sometimes, those comic books were not a direct reaction to the war itself.  For example, the Daredevil story written and illustrated by Charles Biro in Daredevil Comics #5 took inspiration from the[...]

The series, created by Charles Biro and Bob Wood and featured art by Biro and George Tuska, is considered the start of the crime comic genre and was the first true-crime comic At its best the book sold over 6 million copies per issue. The musical, created by award-winning Calgary composer David Rhymer and musician and[...]