Men's Adventures #10

Promising "Mystery · Suspense · Danger" across its bold masthead, this October 1951 Atlas anthology delivers a gripping Korean War scene on Joe Maneely's cover: two battle-worn GIs crouch over a fallen enemy soldier amid the rubble of a devastated landscape, one barking a terse remark at his shaken companion. The lead feature, "The Education of Thomas Dillon!," is teased as rooted in "the strangest incident of the entire Korean War," and the cover's sidebar panels hint at three more tales — "One-Way Ticket!," "Simon's Blood!," and "The Drive of Death!" — each promising its own flavor of dread. Bill Everett handles the interior art duties on what shapes up to be a memorably tense ten-cent package of wartime and mystery storytelling.