Amazing Detective Cases #7

Drawn from real crime files, this July 1951 entry in Marvel's Amazing Detective Cases delivers a tense rooftop standoff straight from the era's true-crime pulp tradition. The cover — illustrated by Mike Esposito — captures a masked villain dangling precariously over a construction scaffold while plainclothes detectives and a uniformed police officer close in, the dialogue balloons warning of a deadly "Purple Plague" that could turn the entire city into a death trap. Three additional cases are teased along the left edge, promising stories ripped from the annals of New Orleans, Illinois, and New York, all for a dime.