Fightin' Air Force #24

Cold War tension crackles across Dick Giordano's dynamic cover, where a U.S. jet streaks high above Soviet territory — a speech bubble urgently reading "Start camera run! We are over Moscow!" — while a yellow Soviet fighter marked YM-42 fires rockets in pursuit, smoke trails filling the sky below. The cover teases the interior saga billed as "High Spy Over Russia: The True-to-Life Saga of the Unsung Heroes of the U.S. Air Force," making the stakes feel immediately real. At just ten cents in 1960, this Charlton issue captures the anxious spirit of the era with lean, punchy aerial action.