Headline Comics #40

This anthology issue features adapted true crime and FBI cases. The visible stories include a narrative about Joe Andrews' descent into violent crime, told through police and FBI investigation; a tale involving railroad workers and G-men arranging warning signals to catch smugglers, with a government agent interrogating suspects; and "The Man of Many Faces," adapted from a true FBI case, which chronicles the FBI's hunt for criminal George Robert Gabor, a master of disguise and masquerade who perpetrated schemes including posing as European nobility at a New York hotel and running a fraudulent Hungarian travel agency. The issue also includes period advertisements, notably for a hair research formula product.