Racket Squad in Action #11

Charlton's hard-hitting crime series returns with issue #11, sporting a Steve Ditko cover that pulls no punches — a shadowy figure in the foreground levels a pistol at a cornered man clutching his own gun, while a thought-bubble reveals the crooks' scheme: race-fixing, with a jockey astride a horse and what appears to be doctored paperwork floating nearby. Tied to television's real-life crime exposés, this 1954 ten-cent issue promises gritty, ripped-from-the-headlines drama, with Joe Gill's writing and Bill Molno's interior art bringing "Case of the Income Tax Frauds" to life.