Racket Squad in Action #29

Charlton's long-running crime anthology returns with 68 all-new pages of "double value" for just fifteen cents — a genuine bargain in 1958. The cover by Maurice Whitman frames the action through a clever device: a police case file dated February 16, 1958 and addressed to the District Attorney, its pages torn open to reveal plainclothes officers collaring a suspect in jersey number 12, with a uniformed cop closing in from the background. It's a sharp, street-level image that sets the tone for the kind of racketeering procedural drama — including the headlined story "The Big Pay-Off" — that made this series a go-to for fans of gritty, no-nonsense crime comics.