Mr. District Attorney #43

Straight from the pages of TV and radio fame, DC's Mr. District Attorney #43 (1955) brings the sharp-suited crime fighter to the comics page in a tense office scene where two suspects are brought before the D.A. — only for a third man to complicate the eyewitness identification on the spot. Win Mortimer's cover art captures the procedural drama neatly, with speech balloons that practically crackle with the back-and-forth of a case unraveling in real time. Featuring the story "Hotel Detective!" and billed as "brand-new adventures of TV and radio's favorite," this ten-cent issue delivers exactly the kind of street-level crime intrigue that made the franchise a cross-media hit in 1955.