Big Town #3

Straight from DC's hit TV and radio property, Big Town #3 (1951) delivers 52 pages of hard-boiled newspaper drama — and the cover by Dan Barry sets the tension immediately. Steve Wilson and his female assistant are crouched beside a railroad track under gunfire, desperately taking cover while suited gunmen close in behind them, the cover copy asking whether tomorrow's headlines will read: "Steve Wilson, Fighting Editor and Assistant Ambushed by Killers?" It's a pulse-quickening street-level thriller that captures exactly why Big Town connected with audiences across three different media in 1951.