Crime Must Pay the Penalty! Issue #41 (November 1954) 

In Crime Must Pay The Penalty Issue #41 the criminals are always caught and punished for their crimes. In the first story a safe-cracker is released from jail and declares that he is going to go straight. But his buddies have another plan, they force him to betray his new employer, a legitimate safe cracking company, and rob the customers. But the now good safe cracker manages to foil his old criminal gang's plans and in the end is rewarded for his bravery and trustworthiness. In the second story a criminal gets surgery to change his appearance and avoid deportation. He has his cousin, who is his spitting image, deported in his stead but when his cousin brags about being a past crime boss he has him killed. Of course the crime boss's plans are foiled and he is caught by the cops, as are all the other criminals in every story, because like the title says, Crime Must Pay the Penalty!

This is a good example of Hegemony, in which the idea that "Crime Must Pay" is represented in each of the stories. This theme reoccurs through every plot line reiterating the concept that being a criminal may seem like an easy way to gain fortune, but that in the end you are either going to end up dead or caught. Most of the criminals, even though they wear suits and drive fancy cars, seem to be from a poor background, they talk with slang and act all macho and some times are immigrants, like the criminal from the second story who was going to be deported. Never are the bad guys corporate criminals who schemed their way up the ladder, instead they are blue collar, hard and dirty felons who rob banks and wave around guns. This gives off the idea that the people who break the law are often of the lower classes, that crime and jail are meant for those poor offenders who are lazy and moral scum, rather than white collar up standing citizens.