Gang Busters #32

Based on DC's long-running law-and-order series — billed as "Brand-New Adventures of T.V. and Radio's Favorite!" — this February–March 1953 issue puts the spotlight squarely on campus crime. Ruben Moreira's cover captures a tense street scene: a uniformed officer waves through a brightly painted, slogan-covered jalopy packed with college kids, blissfully unaware (per his speech bubble) that they could possibly be criminals, while a passenger mutters "That's what he thinks" — a perfectly wry setup for the featured story, "The College-Boy Gang." With the bold tagline "You Can't Beat the Law!" anchoring the bottom, this is a sharp, entertaining slice of early-'50s crime comics doing exactly what they did best.