Mr. District Attorney #38

This 1954 DC issue brings "brand-new adventures of T.V. and radio's favorite" straight to the newsstand, with a cover by Win Mortimer that puts Mr. District Attorney in genuinely dire straits — bound to a brick wall and caught in a spotlight while three armed gangsters level their rifles at him, as a fourth hoodlum coolly delivers the chilling ultimatum: "All right, D.A. — if you got any last words, you'd better say 'em now!" The featured story is billed as "Shoot to Kill! — A Story of Gangland's Firing Squad," promising the kind of hard-boiled crime drama that made this series a cross-media hit on radio and television alike. Inside, Howard Purcell and inker Charles Paris bring the adventure to life, with lettering by Joe Letterese.