Public Defender in Action #9

Charlton's courtroom crime series delivers another tense chapter with this 1957 issue, cover penciled by Dick Giordano and inked by Vince Alascia. The cover pulls you right into what appears to be a tense interrogation or hearing — a mustachioed attorney in the foreground studies a revolver resting on the table before him, while across the room a blond man in a suit points accusingly at a seated suspect in purple, a uniformed officer standing nearby and a stern judge looking on from the bench. With a story titled "Snake Eyes" and Joe Gill writing alongside Dick Giordano's interior art, this ten-cent Charlton package promises the kind of hard-edged legal drama that made Public Defender in Action a genuinely compelling slice of 1950s crime comics.