Gang Busters #66

This November 1958 DC crime title delivers a tense prison standoff right on its cover, penciled and inked by Bob Brown — a gray-clad convict levels a pistol at a startled warden while snatching a ring of keys, declaring "All right, Warden, I'm taking over now!" with a uniformed guard visible in the background. The featured story, "The Convict in Cell 6," promises exactly the kind of hard-edged law-and-order drama that made Gang Busters a staple of 1950s crime comics. At a dime a copy, this is a tidy snapshot of an era when comics wore their pulp-thriller influences proudly.