Comic Title: World's Finest Comics #5
Publisher: DC (World's Best Comics Company)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Spring 1942
On Sale Date: February 13, 1942 Newsstand Date February 13, 1942
Source: House Ad, More Fun Comics #77, Page 14

Copyright Date February 3, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 96
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "Crime's Stage Manager"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Crimson Avenger (of Earth-2)

Writer/Penciller: John Lehti
Inker: Charles Paris

Feature Character(s)

• Crimson Avenger (last appearance in Detective Comics #61; next appearance in Detective Comics #62)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wing (last appearance in Detective Comics #61; next appearance in Detective Comics #62)

Villain(s)

• Rocky Roper and his gang (Tug, Shorty, Big Ears, and Dopey named; no further appearances)
• Carl Corday (an author and actor; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
The title page of this issue uses the title: "Murder in Three Acts" for this story.

Synopsis:
The actor on stage at a play walk into the audience and begin robbing people. The play's author is later found tied up and explains that crooks replaced the real actors. Later the same gang replaces the employees of a jewelry store while they rob it. The Crimson Avenger deduces that the gang leader is Rocky Roper. He sets a trap for Rocky and apprehends the gang. He also implicates the author as the man who trained Rocky's gang in their disguises. The author kills himself to escape justice.