Police Action #2

This March 1954 Atlas Comics entry captures the raw tension of mid-century crime drama, with cover art by Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos depicting a dramatic prison break in full swing — convicts in striped uniforms scrambling over and around a stone wall while officers close in, guns drawn, under a vivid orange sun. The story teased inside, "The Fugitive!," promises the kind of hard-boiled law-and-order action the cover headline "Police Strike Back at Gangland!" delivers right up front. At just ten cents, Police Action #2 offered readers a punchy, no-nonsense look at the thin line between order and chaos.