Foreign Intrigues #15

Agent Vic Moley pursues master counterfeiter Hans Schneider across the Atlantic and into Berlin, racing to stop a scheme to flood Europe with expertly forged currency. As Schneider attempts to reach the Russian Zone with his precious printing plates, Moley must navigate international borders and double-crosses to prevent the counterfeit operation from succeeding. With the help of underground contacts and sheer determination, the special agent closes in on the criminal enterprise in a tense game of cat-and-mouse through divided Berlin.

Boxcar Benny asks a well-dressed man for spare change in this quick-witted humorous tale, but when the man criticizes his appearance and suggests he find work to support himself, Benny turns the logic on its head with his own surprising argument about the nature of labor and self-sufficiency. It's a cheeky bit of Depression-era vagrant humor that shows why beggars can be reasoners too.

When Special Agent Duran spots an engagement announcement in the society pages, he recognizes a potential security threat: Dr. Naisen, a brilliant American physicist, is engaged to Eleva Balen, a woman who vanished behind the Iron Curtain years ago. Sent to Paris to investigate, Duran must determine whether she's a Soviet plant trying to compromise Naisen—or a victim caught between the NKVD's schemes and her own desire to escape. As enemy agents close in from all sides, the race is on to protect the couple before Cold War espionage turns their engagement into a deadly trap.

When a priceless Rembrandt disappears from the Fine Arts Museum, Johnny Dynamite takes the case—not out of love for art, but for the insurance company's hefty reward. As he navigates a web of fake offers and suspicious dealings, Johnny begins to suspect that the museum's own director, Welles, is behind the theft, leading to a tense confrontation that reveals a scheme far more elaborate than a simple heist. The case takes a shocking turn when Johnny's hunch about a forged painting and Welles' true motives finally comes to light.

Headline Harry sets out to invent a spectacular injury as a story hook for his editor's evening edition, but a slip at a construction site transforms his hoax into genuine calamity. As he bounces from one misadventure to another—hospital ambulances, police cars, and fire engines colliding in his wake—Harry manages to stumble into real front-page news. It's a riotous 1956 tale of accidental journalism from Foreign Intrigues #15.