Atomic Spy Cases #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Atomic Spy Cases #1 (1950) This anthology issue contains four espionage stories based on true events. "Devil in Petticoats" follows a female spy named Marta who extracts vital information from Captain Robert Lawrence through seduction before being exposed by his jealous colleague. "The Trail of the Family Heirloom" depicts secret agents hunting escaped Nazi war criminals across the globe, following a coded list hidden in a family heirloom to track down a high-ranking Nazi operative named Les Chalmers. "Donovan of Central Intelligence" features a spy operative engaged in Cold War espionage. "Operation H.M." completes the issue with another classified intelligence mission.
A spy ring led by Malko orchestrates an audacious scheme to steal plutonium from an American atomic research facility, using an elaborate setup involving a staged accident to capture a plant employee named Dawson. With Nikkol impersonating Dawson and infiltrating the secure compound, the agents race against time to extract the radioactive material—but U.S. counterintelligence is close behind. As the chase intensifies, the stolen plutonium becomes a powder keg that could level an entire town.
When U.S. correspondent Les Chalmers agrees to deliver what he believes is a family heirloom watch to Rio, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a far more dangerous scheme involving Nazi war criminals and a coded message that could reshape a global conspiracy. Chalmers teams up with a French intelligence agent and must navigate kidnappings, double-crosses, and a desperate chase to recover a matching watch and stop the resurrection of a sinister movement. What begins as a simple favor spirals into a high-stakes hunt that stretches from Germany to South America.
Donovan of Central Intelligence follows an American spy racing across the Sahara with stolen plans for radio-controlled missile launching cradles—plans he must deliver to the U.S. Consul in Tangier before enemy agents track him down. Cornered in the desert town of Caserta, Donovan must outwit his pursuers and find a way out of the city before the enemy closes in. Written by the creators behind this Central Intelligence tale, it's a tense cat-and-mouse game where one wrong move means the plans—and Donovan himself—fall into the wrong hands.
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Reprinted in Boy Detective Comics #1 (1952), Eerie #3 (1952), The Saint #5 (1952), Airboy Comics #1 (1953), Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror #[nn] (2013)
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