Mr. District Attorney #15

Based on the popular radio drama of its day, this 1950 DC title brings 52 big pages of crime-fighting drama straight to your hands. Howard Purcell's cover sets the tension perfectly — a determined man in a blue suit draws a gun while confronting a shady figure in a green coat, with a frightened woman in red and a pair of convicts in striped prison garb caught between them, all framed against the looming headlight and billowing steam of a massive locomotive. The cover promises "the dynamite-packed inside story of a Prison Train," and with Ed Herron writing and Purcell's crisp linework throughout, this issue delivers exactly the kind of hard-edged, street-level justice that made Mr. District Attorney a hit on airwaves and newsstands alike.