Red Scare #[nn]

Set against a vivid red backdrop, Liam Francis Walsh's cover for Red Scare puts two young kids — a boy and a girl using a crutch — nervously pressing against a brick wall as an ominous, looming shadow of a hulking figure stretches over them. The tagline "In 1953, fear runs deep" perfectly captures the Cold War dread baked into every inch of this image. Published by Scholastic in 2022, this graphic novel looks like a genuinely gripping story of childhood anxiety set against one of America's most paranoid eras.