Police Comics #114

This April 1952 Quality Comics issue drops readers right into a taut standoff: a hat-brimmed gunman levels a revolver across a desk while a wide-eyed redhead in red and a alarmed dark-haired man react with barely contained panic — and a mysterious black bag sits ominously on the desk between them. Reed Crandall's pencils and Chuck Cuidera's inks give the scene a sharp, cinematic tension that fits the series' promise of being "tops in suspense, mystery, adventure and intrigue." The cover teases the Ken Shannon story "The Blonde with Two Heads" and poses the question that'll keep you turning pages: what was the terrifying secret of the black bag?