Mr. District Attorney #21

Adapted from radio's top-rated program, Mr. District Attorney #21 brings the courtroom crusader into the thick of street-level danger across a generous 52 pages. Win Mortimer's cover — inked by Charles Paris — captures a tense brawl on a city stoop, with the D.A. in his sharp blue suit trading punches and grappling for a gun between two fedora-wearing thugs, while a startled figure in yellow recoils in the doorway behind them. The cover's teasing question — "What sinister events forced the D.A. to become a 'Killer's Bodyguard'?" — makes this 1951 DC entry a genuinely intriguing slice of hard-boiled crime comics.