Racket Squad in Action #14

Charlton's hard-boiled crime anthology delivers another tense standoff in this 1955 issue, with cover art by Dick Giordano putting the heat squarely on a desperate criminal in a fedora and loose tie who's bolting for the door — only to find a determined plainclothes officer blocking his path and demanding he stop or face a bullet. Meanwhile, a red-haired lawman restrains a struggling figure while uniformed police close in from behind, and a panicked voice balloon warns "Twister" to flee with a car loaded with evidence. It's a snapshot of 1950s crime-comics storytelling at its most kinetic, and "The Big Freeze" promises the same gritty, street-level justice that made Racket Squad in Action a standout on the newsstands.