Crime Can't Win #10

A rooftop pursuit crackles with tension on Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule's cover, where armed police officers corner a desperate man in green clinging to a city ledge high above a street lined with wartime "Buy U.S. Defense Bonds" signage. This April 1952 Atlas title promises ripped-from-the-headlines drama, headlined by "Dragnet" — billed as the true step-by-step police chase that trapped "Scarface" Marcu, described as the nation's most vicious killer in 1932. Three sidebar panels tease additional true-crime tales — "Innocent Bystander," "The Gorilla Strikes," and "The Hot-Car Racket" — making this a packed entry in one of the era's most earnest crime-fighting anthologies.