Gang Busters #25

Straight from the pages of "radio's coast-to-coast favorite," Gang Busters #25 brings DC's hard-boiled crime series to a tense hospital-room standoff — a disguised undercover cop in bed is suddenly exposed by a snarling crook brandishing a revolver, while a startled woman looks on from the doorway and a suited figure looms at right, the speech bubble crackling with urgency: "It's a trap! This isn't Ace Lester! It's a cop! Plug him!" Win Mortimer's cover art delivers that charged moment with punchy clarity, perfectly teasing the featured story, "The Cop with 100 Faces." With the tagline "You Can't Beat the Law!" blazing across the bottom, this 1951 issue captures everything that made Gang Busters a thrill for crime-fiction fans of the era.