Police Comics #105

This April 1951 Quality Comics entry promises 52 pages of suspense, mystery, adventure, and intrigue — and the cover by penciller Reed Crandall and inker Chuck Cuidera delivers an immediate jolt of all four. A ghostly apparition with outstretched hands throttles a terrified man in a blue suit while a screaming woman and a sharp-eyed man in green look on in horror, and looming ominously in the foreground is a turbaned, blue-skinned figure whose gloved hands suggest sinister orchestration of the whole supernatural scene. The teaser copy asks "Can a Ghost Kill?" and touts Ken Shannon, Sensational Private Eye, in writer Joe Millard's story "The Invisible Hands of Murder!" — a setup that blends hard-boiled detective thrills with the eerie chill of the unknown.