Crime and Punishment #15

From Lev Gleason's "dedicated to the eradication of crime" anthology comes this June 1949 entry in the Crime and Punishment series — cover by Charles Biro, whose bold street scene captures a tense standoff between scrambling criminals and a pursuing police officer, with a red getaway car and a green police cruiser competing for the curb while speech balloons crackle with desperate chatter. Promising "True Criminal Case Histories," the issue leads with "'Cellar-Dancer' Kiefer," teased in the bottom banner as a crime syndicate story spanning two continents. At a dime for 52 full pages, this is a fine snapshot of late-1940s crime comics firing on all cylinders.