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issue of the series featured several stories about the lives of actual criminals taken from newspaper accounts, history books, and occasionally, as advertised, "actual police files." The stories provided details of actual criminal activity and, in making the protagonists of the stories actual criminals -- albeit criminals who were eventually caught and punished, usually in a violent manner, by story's end -- seemed to glorify criminal activity, according to several critics. An immediate success, the series remained virtually unchallenged in the

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