Police Comics #111

That cover image — a man's terror-stricken face with a thrown blade passing inches from his nose, practically leaping off the page — captures exactly why Quality Comics billed itself "Tops in Suspense, Mystery, Adventure and Intrigue." Reed Crandall's cover art for this January 1952 issue delivers a jolt of pure noir dread, teasing the Ken Shannon story "Diana, the Homicidal Huntress" with a hair-raising close call that the cover copy describes as death missing by "a fraction of an inch." Rounding out the issue is a T-Man thriller titled "Murder from Moscow," making this a packed ten-cent package of Cold War tension and hard-boiled danger.