Police Comics #117

Ken Shannon is pressured by mobster Mickey Marrone to track down a missing financial manager—with Ken's secretary Dee Dee's safety hanging in the balance as leverage. As Ken digs into the case at the seedier corners of the city, he'll need to navigate a web of criminals and double-crosses to uncover what happened to the bullet-riddled bookkeeper and save the woman he cares about.

Inspector Marty Denver of homicide hits the trail when a souped-up car leaves a charred victim in its wake—the first in a string of moonshiner murders that same day. As Denver and his partner Cassidy pursue the killer through burning woods and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, they discover a massive illegal still and the culprit behind the flame-thrower attacks. In this 1952 case, Denver must outthink a ruthless operator who's declared war on the competition to corner the moonshining racket.

A T-Man agent pursuing a mysterious Russian paymaster in Athens finds his trail leading through ancient ruins and wine company fronts. When his cover nearly blows and the stakes turn deadly, Pete must use cunning—and a few tricks learned from magicians—to stay alive long enough to catch Stalin's money man. This Cold War caper, packed with museum chases and narrow escapes, proves that sometimes the best weapon against communist plots is quick thinking.

Detective Alan Sykes arrives at the home of wealthy Jonathan Price, who appears to have taken his own life with prussic acid—but the sharp-eyed investigator quickly spots something the secretary, Charles Strong, overlooked. With only the two men in the house, Sykes must uncover whether this was truly suicide or a carefully staged murder.

Patrolman Jerry King catches wind of a daring theft at the Braun Chemical Company—America's only supply of a life-saving "Wonder Drug" destined for thousands of children with rheumatic fever has vanished. With only an hour before a Lisbon-bound ship sets sail, Jerry races against time to search the vessel's hold and track down the culprit before the stolen medicine disappears overseas. Written and illustrated by the Police Comics team, "One Heroic Hour" delivers a taut race against the clock with high stakes and higher tension.