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Cover: Howard Purcell & Charles Paris

Mr. District Attorney #17

Sep 1950 · DC · 0.10 USD
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“The Bachelor of Crime!”

Straight from radio's number-one hit comes this 52-page DC gem from 1950, bringing the sharp-eyed District Attorney to vivid four-color life. Cover artists Howard Purcell and Charles Paris frame the scene beautifully: a determined D.A. in a sharp suit leans over a cutaway model of a house, pointing out a key detail to a uniformed police officer, while a wide-eyed blonde woman looks on with concern — the cover itself promises "A Baffling Murder Mystery!" inside. With Dan Barry handling the interior art, this is a satisfying slice of mid-century crime drama that captures exactly why the franchise was such a sensation in 1950.

artist, inker Dan Barry · cover Howard Purcell, Charles Paris

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artist, inker Dan Barry
cover pencils Howard Purcell
cover inks Charles Paris

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This is a historical feature on prison reformer and Warden Lewis E. Lawes who ran Sing Sing Correctional Facility from 1920-1941, and wrote several books including Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing which was made into an NBC radio show and into a movie in 1932.

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