Amazing Detective Cases #4

Drawn and inked by Sol Brodsky, this January 1951 issue of Amazing Detective Cases pulls readers straight into a tense street confrontation outside what appears to be a restaurant or club, where a sharply dressed mobster named Pogo Vladek faces down armed men while speech balloons crackle with threats. The cover promises "The Startling History of Pogo Vladek, the Most Feared Mobster of the 1910s" — a man who tried to live like a big shot, with predictably dangerous results. Rounding out the issue are three more crime tales: "The Amazing Mister Pettigew," "The Fake," and "Skull and Cross-Bones," making this a genuinely packed ten-cent package of pulpy underworld drama.