Crime Can't Win #12

A cornered criminal splashes through rising floodwaters in a subterranean tunnel on Sol Brodsky's gripping cover, while armed officers close in from above — the speech bubbles making clear that "Denkler," dubbed "The Sewer Rat," faces a grim choice between surrender and drowning. This September 1952 Atlas title leans hard into the era's true-crime pulp energy, promising the "actual record of the East Coast's most vicious criminal." With interior art by Hy Rosen and inks by Manny Stallman, it's a tight ten-cent package of crime-doesn't-pay drama at its most visceral.