Dick Tracy #44

Chester Gould's cover for this October 1951 Harvey Comics entry drops you right into a furious, multi-angle shootout as Dick Tracy crouches low behind cover while several gun-toting thugs close in from every direction — bullets ricocheting with a sharp "ZIN-N-NGG!" The cover itself bills it as "the most exciting gun-blazing battle in Tracy's career," and with armed figures lurking on staircases and around corners, it's easy to see why. The tagline poses a gripping question: can Tracy escape a savage underworld killer in "The Case of the Antiseptic Murderer"?