Badge of Justice #3

This Charlton crime anthology brings back its badge-wearing heroes in issue #3, with a cover penciled by Pat Masulli and inked by Dick Giordano that captures the series' street-level intensity perfectly. Two uniformed officers — one senior cop landing a decisive punch, his partner closing in with a drawn pistol — have cornered a suspect against a weathered wooden backdrop, the whole scene crackling with the kind of no-nonsense law-enforcement action the title promises right in its masthead: "Wrong Doers Never Escape the Badge of Justice." At a dime a copy in 1955, this Comics Code–approved issue delivers hard-edged police drama, anchored by a story tantalizingly titled "The Eager Rookie.