Big Town #37

A mid-1950s DC gem tied to television's hit show, Big Town #37 features "The Mystery Reporter of the Illustrated Press" in a cover scene that crackles with procedural tension — a sketch artist at the foreground races to complete a composite portrait while witnesses call out details: "white hair," "thin face," "dark eyebrows." Gil Kane's cover art renders the gathered figures with crisp, expressive energy, building genuine suspense around whose face is taking shape on that drawing board. Inside, writer John Broome and artist Manny Stallman (inked by John Giunta) bring the world of investigative journalism to life in "The Secret Life of 'Streak' Saunders!" — a fine slice of 1956 DC storytelling at a dime a copy.