Foreign Intrigues #15

Charlton's Cold War espionage series hits a fever pitch with this 1956 installment, teasing a "Rendezvous in East Berlin" — and the cover makes the tension feel immediate and tactile. A caped foreign soldier bearing a club confronts a tense cluster of civilians and shadowy figures in a dimly lit archway, while a man in green and another in a striped shirt look on with unmistakable wariness. Inset above it all is series protagonist Johnny Dynamite — eye patch, cigarette, and a cool that could cut glass — rendered with sharp energy by cover penciler Bill Molno and inker Vince Alascia.