Police Comics #28

In "Tables Turned on Murder," a 1944 entry from Police Comics #28, Officer Richards finds himself unexpectedly guarding a gangster’s troubled younger brother, Tommy, after a court order places him in the cop’s care. When Tommy discovers that Richards is secretly the masked vigilante Manhunter, he betrays him to his brother’s gang—only to learn the truth about the gang’s treachery and the real danger lurking within. The story unfolds with tense loyalty shifts and a hidden identity at its heart, all drawn with sharp detail by Al Bryant and rendered on the cover by Jack Cole.