Crime Cases Comics #12

A tense parking-lot ambush explodes across the cover of this 1952 Atlas crime anthology, with cover pencils by Carl Burgos and inks by Christopher Rule bringing the chaos to vivid life — gun-toting gangsters in sharp fedoras find themselves suddenly surrounded by a swarm of police, their double-cross unraveling in a hail of speech balloons and gunfire. Three teaser panels along the bottom preview stories including "Cornered!," "Death in Kangaroo Court!," and the mob-war tale "War!," written by Carl Wessler with art by George Tuska. The header says it all: "True Police Cases Proving Crime Can't Win!" — and this issue looks determined to make good on that promise.