Police Comics #125

A Ken Shannon Super Thriller with a genuinely wild premise — "The Killer of King Arthur's Court," written by Joe Millard — collides medieval menace with hard-boiled detective action right on this April 1953 cover by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. A sword-and-axe-wielding knight in full armor bears down on a bound, gagged woman while a sharp-jawed man in a rust-colored suit — gun drawn, sparks flying where steel meets steel — fights back with everything he's got. Quality Comics was delivering exactly what the banner promised: tops in suspense, mystery, adventure, and intrigue.