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A sleek U-2 spy plane streaks across a stark grey sky on this strikingly understated cover, while a composed but steely-eyed man in a suit — American pilot Francis Gary Powers — dominates the foreground. Walter Pfenninger's graphic account brings Cold War tension to the comics page, telling the story of one of the most dramatic incidents of 1960s espionage history. At 12.00 EUR from Zwerchfell, this 2012 release is a compelling piece of historically grounded sequential art.