Crime and Punishment #51

Crime and Punishment #51 brings the "True Criminal Case Histories" promise front and center with a tense mid-air hijacking scene aboard a Sky-Quick Airlines flight — armed gunmen are forcing passengers to line up at the emergency door while a second crook holds the cockpit at gunpoint, ordering the captain out. Fred Kida's cover art captures the chaos of terrified passengers caught in the crossfire with sharp, kinetic linework that pulls you straight into the action. At just 10 cents in 1952, this Lev Gleason title was delivering the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines crime drama that kept readers coming back issue after issue.