Racket Squad in Action #27

This 1957 Charlton crime series — billed as "A Tribute to the Men Who Smash the Rackets" — delivers exactly that promise on the cover of issue #27, with a tense waterfront confrontation unfolding across a gritty industrial dockside backdrop. Maurice Whitman's cover art puts you right in the middle of the action: a suspicious figure in a yellow jacket receives something from an outstretched hand in the foreground, while two men tangle near a dark red car and a police boat idles in the harbor behind them. With interior work by writer Joe Gill and artists Bill Molno and Vince Alascia on "Never Again," this is mid-fifties crime comics storytelling at its no-nonsense best.