Big Town #9

Based on the TV and radio hit show, Big Town #9 brings reporter Steve Wilson leaping across the hood of a yellow taxi in a frantic city street chase, as an orange car packed with armed figures — including a startled woman — tears through the urban chaos behind him. Alex Toth's cover art crackles with kinetic energy, capturing the "mile-a-minute danger" promised by the "Beauty and Bullets!" headline splashed across the cover. At ten cents for 52 big pages, this 1951 DC offering is a terrific snapshot of the era's love affair with hard-boiled newspaper drama.