Amazing Detective Cases #14

This September 1952 Atlas Comics entry delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by George Roussos: a hooded, chained figure looms in the foreground while a man and woman carrying a lantern cautiously explore a darkened tunnel behind it, the tagline warning that on some detective cases it's better to keep your "Hands Off!" The atmosphere is pure mid-century crime-noir dread, balancing menace and mystery in a way that feels pulled straight from a late-night radio thriller. Inside, Ed Smalle brings the art on "The Weasel Returns!" — a title that promises exactly the kind of hard-edged suspense this era of crime comics did so well.