Racket Squad in Action #10

Charlton's Racket Squad in Action #10 brings 1954's crime-comics energy to a boil with a cover by Frank Frollo and Vince Alascia that puts you right in the middle of a protection-racket shakedown gone loud — a speeding car screeches away from a massive "BA-ROOM!" explosion outside a wines-and-liquors shop, while a figure leans from the vehicle snarling "So he won't buy our protection, eh!" Inside, Carl Memling and Frank Frollo (with inks by Vince Alascia) deliver "Stamp of Guilt," promising the same hard-edged crime-drama energy the cover so vividly sets up. A ten-cent package of urban tension and consequence, exactly what fans of mid-fifties crime comics came looking for.