Big Town #4

Based on DC's hit TV and radio property, Big Town #4 (1951) delivers 52 pages of hard-boiled newspaper drama straight to your doorstep. The cover by penciler John Lehti and inker Sy Barry crackles with tension: a horrified blonde woman looks on in terror as, atop a rooftop engulfed in flames against a city skyline, a green-suited man raises a gun while grappling with a fedora-wearing figure — and a third man watches from the shadows nearby. The cover's own burning question — has Steve Wilson, the fighting newsman, uncovered the answer to a flaming riddle only to seal his own doom? — makes this a thoroughly gripping entry in the series.