sentences:  Biro and Wood discussed the matter and eventually came up with a concept that would become "Crime Does Not Pay", a comic book series chronicling the lives of murderers and gangsters based in part on real world people.Biro is reputed to have been inspired by a meeting with a kidnapper and pimp one night in a bar, although publisher Arthur Bernhard has stated that the entire concept was created by Gleason.The title was based on a popular radio and MGM film series.