Police Comics #117 (1952)

Ken Shannon, a private detective with a past, is forced to take a dangerous job for mobster Mickey Marrone after his secretary, Dee Dee, is taken hostage. When Marrone demands he track down the missing financial manager Al Bourne, Shannon realizes the threat to Dee Dee is real—and that Marrone may not even know who she is. With the trail leading to the Emerald Club and a cast of shady characters, Shannon must navigate a web of deception before the next deadly twist.

Inspector Marty Denver investigates a string of mysterious deaths involving moonshiners found burned to death in their cars, leading him and his partner Cassidy on a high-stakes chase through the woods where they face a flamethrower-wielding killer hiding in a massive underground still. With no weapons and only their wits, they outmaneuver the attacker in a tense showdown that tests their courage and quick thinking.

In 1952, T-Man is sent to Athens to track down Stalin’s elusive paymaster, a Russian agent delivering $300,000 to Greek communists. Following a lead on a man named Pellak, T-Man finds himself entangled in a web of deception, dodging traps and suspecting everyone—including a suspiciously sturdy man calling himself Aleko—until a daring escape from the ruins reveals a shocking twist.

In the quiet of a wealthy man’s library, Detective Alan Sykes arrives to investigate the apparent suicide of Jonathan Price, only to find a bottle of prussic acid clenched in the dead man’s hand and a lingering scent of almond—too strong to be natural. With the victim’s secretary, Charles Strong, the only other person in the house, Sykes swiftly deduces that the scene was staged, and the clue hidden in plain sight points to murder, not despair.

Patrolman Jerry King races against the clock after a midnight robbery at the Braun Chemical Company, where thieves steal the "Wonder Drug"—the only cure for rheumatic fever—intending to smuggle it out of the country. With only an hour before a Lisbon-bound ship sails, Jerry follows a trail of clues from the factory to the ship’s hold, uncovering the hidden drug in crates of eggs and confronting the mastermind behind the theft.