Gwandanaland Comics #2284

This Gwandanaland Comics collection reprints the complete run of Exposed: Cases in the Crusade Against Crime, gathering true-crime stories with titles like "Body on the Beach," "Studio Murder," "The Telltale Bullet," and "Hot Zircon Case" into one handy volume. The reproduced cover of Vol. 1 No. 5 sets the mood perfectly — a panicked cab driver gripping the wheel amid a crash, a sharp-dressed man barking "Follow that car!" while a startled blonde woman looks on, the driver protesting he's got a wife and five kids. It's a wonderfully tense snapshot of late-1940s crime comics storytelling, and having all these gritty cases collected together in 2019 makes for a great deep-dive into the genre's golden age.