Crime and Punishment #4

From Lev Gleason's crime anthology comes this gripping July 1948 entry, with a cover by Charles Biro that drops you right into the tension: two civilians have stumbled upon a car full of armed, sleeping criminals — speech balloons reveal they've spotted the guns in the fugitives' laps and are whispering urgent plans to phone the police barracks before the killers wake. Promising "True Criminal Case Histories" dedicated to the eradication of crime, this issue features a story centered on Clyde and Marvin Barrow, with interior art by Bob Fujitani. It's pulpy, morally earnest crime comics storytelling at its most vivid — exactly what made the genre such a cultural lightning rod in 1948.