Lawbreakers #9

From Charlton's gritty crime anthology comes Lawbreakers #9, cover-dated 1952, featuring a tense street scene where a desperate, wild-eyed figure in a cap lunges forward through an urban setting — a lunch wagon, a uniformed officer, and a getaway car all visible in the charged background. Up in the corner of the bold red-and-yellow logo, two more figures tangle in a frantic struggle, setting the hard-boiled tone before you've even opened the cover. Stan Campbell's cover art captures that raw, no-nonsense crime comics energy perfectly, and inside, Dick Giordano brings the same intensity to the story "Minute Clues.