Gang Busters #42

From DC's long-running crime anthology comes Gang Busters #42 (1954), featuring the story "The Execution of Private Enemy No. 1!" The cover, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Stan Kaye, plunges you into a scene of tight, domestic terror: a bald gunman presses a pistol toward a frightened, bespectacled man seated at a table — a clock sitting ominously nearby — while two more alarmed figures look on in the background and a second suited man looms at the right. The featured story is promised right on the cover as "Twelve Hours of Fear," and the tagline says it all: you can't beat the law.