Soapy Smith gambling house. Legend has it that above the entrance of the stairway leading upstairs to the gambling games was a sign that read "caveat emptor", Latin for "let the buyer beware". Smith's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for dishonest poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms. Other operations included fraudulent lottery shops, a "sure-thing" stock exchange, fake watch and bogus diamond auctions, and the sale of stocks in nonexistent businesses. Because of bribes, some of the police officers patrolling the streets would not arrest
Beware the Creeper series. Two months later. the first issue of "Beware the Creeper" was released with a cover date of June 1968. "Beware the Creeper" was cancelled after six issues, the victim, per columnist and artist Fred Hembeck, of "bean-counters [who] were a little quick to yank the rug out from underneath a new series during that particular stage of DC's history..." The storyline started in the six issues of "Beware the Creeper" would eventually be concluded seven years later in "Super-Team Family" #2, published in 1975. With no obvious connection to the original series (though with subtle ties to DC Universe