Police Comics #113 (1952)

When a mysterious corpse with a size 13 shoe turns up near a country road, Ken Shannon is pulled into a web of secrets after his secretary, Dee Dee Dawson, reveals a series of tangled relationships involving a wealthy café owner, a jealous boyfriend, and a missing woman. As Ken digs deeper, he uncovers a hidden insurance policy and a clue tied to a naval past, leading him to a tense showdown at a secluded farm where the truth behind the murder begins to unravel.

Inspector Denver faces off against a man who claims to be "The Walking Death," a criminal strapped with what appears to be dynamite and threatening to blow up half the town unless his demands are met. As the man hijacks the Caswell payroll truck, Denver uses a daring psychological gambit, setting up a roadblock and a train crossing to outwit the suspect—only to reveal that the "dynamite" is actually just wooden sticks.

In the midst of a dangerous mission to deliver grain to the famine-stricken nation of Ranjab, T-Man Pete Trask parachutes onto the S.S. Alkurnia, where he meets Tarya, a member of Ranjab’s secret intelligence. As sabotage and mystery plague the ship, Trask and Tarya must uncover the identity of the elusive "Devil's Agent" while facing a series of deadly threats at sea and on land.

In the quiet town of Millcreek, Detective Alan Sykes investigates the murder of Ben Deeds, whose throat was cut inside a locked room—only one window was open. With the evidence pointing to Old Jake Grady as the only suspect, Sykes must unravel the mystery of how the killer escaped, and why the locked room might actually prove Grady’s innocence.

Sergeant Jimmy Quinn is ordered to track down Randy Keller, a man who believes he’s a fugitive condemned to die, unaware that he was pardoned after being wrongfully convicted. As Quinn pursues Keller through the city and into a perilous rooftop standoff, he must convince his former friend he’s free—before fear and desperation drive him to violence.