Crime and Punishment #65

Crime and Punishment #65 brings the hard-boiled tension of Lev Gleason's "true criminal case histories" series to a head with a cover by George Tuska that puts you right in the middle of a street ambush. A wounded man in an orange suit staggers through a gate crying "I'm hit, Eddie! Don't let 'em take me!" while a cop leans over the fence with a drawn gun and a sharp-tongued figure in a teal jacket and fedora delivers the cold-blooded retort — all framed against a "Vote" campaign poster that adds a nice layer of crooked atmosphere. Tuska's confident linework and vivid color give this 1954 entry exactly the punchy, street-level energy that made Crime and Punishment one of the era's most compelling crime anthologies.