Rookie Cop #33

Charlton's Rookie Cop #33 puts its young officer squarely in the crosshairs, as the cover blurb promises he'll face "the underworld's deadliest guns" in the story "Tiger Cub." Dick Giordano's pencils and Vince Alascia's inks deliver a tense street scene: a grimly determined rookie in uniform presses against a brick wall, pistol raised, while a hat-wearing gunman in the foreground and a confrontation near a cashier's window play out behind him — bullets literally streaking across the image. For a dime in 1957, this Comics Code–approved Charlton offering serves up exactly the kind of gritty, street-level crime drama that made the series a reliable ten-cent thrill.