Sam Hill Private Eye #7

America's Hard-Boiled, Wise-Cracking Sleuth" returns in this 1952 Archie Comics entry, with a cover by Harry Lucey that drops you straight into a candlelit funeral parlor confrontation — a panicked man in green aims a smoking pistol at a blonde woman laid out in a casket, while a cool-headed figure in a blue suit looks on and delivers a chilling accusation. The speech balloons alone crackle with noir tension, teasing a tale of a killer undone by the very victim he thought he'd silenced, perfectly setting the stage for "The Corpse Came Back.