Mr. District Attorney #40

DC's long-running courtroom crime series brings its TV and radio roots straight to the page in this 1954 entry, with cover art by Win Mortimer depicting a tense interrogation scene: a suited district attorney speaks into a telephone, coolly informing a bald, orange-suited suspect that his picture and fingerprints are already on their way to the F.B.I. — while a uniformed officer stands guard nearby. A futuristic-looking machine in the foreground displays a large fingerprint alongside a face, hinting at the issue's featured story, "I Phoned in a Killer," and promising a glimpse at how a new rogues' gallery on wires traps wanted criminals.