Four Color #7

Against a vivid yellow backdrop, Jim Chambers' cover for this 1940 Dell entry captures a tense mid-action standoff — a plainclothes detective and a uniformed officer confront two armed gangsters while a fallen figure lies sprawled on the ground between them, guns drawn on all sides. The raw, street-level energy of "The Jack Markey Gang" comes through immediately in that freeze-frame moment of danger. Sixty-six pages of full-color crime-fighting action for a dime made this a genuinely compelling read for fans of hard-edged law-and-order adventure.