Gang Busters #54

DC's long-running law-and-order series delivers another tense slice of mid-1950s crime drama with this November 1956 issue. Bill Ely's cover drops us inside a prison transport bus — a armed State Police officer stands guard while a scowling prisoner in the foreground mutters his escape scheme in a speech balloon, surrounded by fellow convicts and a bus driver up front, the whole scene anchored by the tagline "You Can't Beat the Law!" Inside, Howard Purcell brings the featured story "Prison on Wheels" to life alongside "Public Enemy of the Highway." As a bonus, the issue includes details and an entry blank for DC's Giant $5,000 Prize Contest — reason enough to grab this one off the newsstand.