Badge of Justice #2

This Charlton crime series lives up to its tagline — "Wrong Doers Never Escape the Badge of Justice" — with a cover that puts you right in the thick of a high-speed pursuit. A sunglasses-wearing motorcycle cop fires his revolver one-handed while thundering forward on a bold red police bike, smoke billowing around him and a green getaway car screeching along the road behind. Bill Molno's pencils and Dick Giordano's inks give the whole scene a punchy, kinetic energy that makes this 1955 ten-cent issue a genuinely satisfying snapshot of mid-decade police-action comics.