Police Comics #117

Quality Comics' hard-boiled crime anthology returns with issue #117, and the cover by Reed Crandall (pencils) and Chuck Cuidera (inks) wastes no time setting the mood — a square-jawed man in a tan suit and fedora grips a frightened blonde woman as gunmen beside a green car open fire on a body crumpling to the sidewalk behind them. The cover promises Ken Shannon in "The Bullet-Riddled Bookkeeper," with Dee Dee's screamed warning blazed across the scene, while a second feature badge advertises T-Man in "Stalin's Paymaster," making this 1952 issue a packed ten-cent package of suspense, mystery, and Cold War intrigue.