Racket Squad in Action #21

Charlton's crime-drama anthology returns with issue #21, promising "All New Inside Facts from the Files of Racket Squad in Action." The cover — penciled by Bill Molno and inked by Vince Alascia — drops readers right into a tense grocery store confrontation: a uniformed police officer draws his pistol while a mustached man in a suit and bow tie squares off against a frightened elderly shopkeeper amid hanging scales and shelves stocked with produce. With interiors by the talented Joe Gill and Dick Giordano, this 1956 ten-cent Charlton publication delivers the kind of ripped-from-real-life crime storytelling the series does best.