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Police Comics #123
Police Comics #123 The featured story, "Death Came Screaming," is a Ken Shannon thriller involving an invisible strangler who kills his victims by breaking their necks. Shannon investigates a murder connected to the Turggs, criminals who employed a man as a slave and jokingly used him as their punching bag. A woman named Hazel becomes implicated in the crimes, but Shannon believes her innocent and works to clear her name, eventually exposing the real culprits and solving the case. The issue also contains a backup feature involving an atomic scientist named Ernest who has created a small atomic bomb, leading to a dangerous situation where a woman must prevent the weapon from being detonated while dealing with sabotage and criminal interference.