Mr. District Attorney #24

Straight from radio's number-one hit comes this 1951 DC crime thriller, with cover art by Howard Purcell and Charles Paris depicting a chilling street confrontation: a gaunt, metallic-masked figure in a bright yellow suit levels a pistol at a sharply dressed man in blue, the city skyline looming ominously in the background. The cover teases "The Killer in the Iron Mask!" — promised to be the case history of the strangest criminal ever to stalk the city streets — and that unsettling iron face alone makes the threat feel genuinely eerie. A fine example of early-fifties DC crime comics firing on all cylinders.