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IN THE 1930'S, BROOKLYN WAS MURDER

Luciano. Capone. Lansky. Names that suggest a simple time in America. A dangerous time. The Twenties and Thirties were a period of change and invention - immigrants gathered along the shores of New York, fresh from the boat, looking to make their fortune. Many, however, lacked the patience and knowhow to build peaceful lives, contributing o their society. These men simply took what they felt was coming to them. The gangster. The hood. The thug. While American media focuses its all-seeing lens on the Italian gangster, in reality there were several cultures running the divided pie of the New York underground. The Irish. The Russians. And of course, the Jews. "Jewish gangster" isn't a term you hear much in post-Holocaust society... but back when the Dodgers played in the East and licorice cost a penny a bag, Brooklyn corners were lousy with semitic young toughs looking for adventure and excitement - none moreso than in Brownsville.

BROWNSVILLE follows the intertwined lives of two such hoods: Albert "Tick Tock" Tanennbaum and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Allie, Reles and a cast of hooligans were organized by Louis Lepke Buchalter into Murder Incorporated, the deadliest hit operation in Mafia history.

Tannenbaum and Reles wrestles with family, Family and each other - a constant wedge jabbed in the back of theri professional relationship. In the late Thirties, that wedge transformed into a stabbing dagger when, in the face of a state and government investigation, the two men turn states' evidence. Branded as rats, the former hoods are forced to face one another and themselves as they send their bosses, confidants and best friends up the river, looking to escape from the mean streets and lonely tenements of East New York.

BROWNSVILLE, a 196 page OGN with artist Jake Allen, will debut from NBM Publishing in 2006.