Showcase #51

DC's long-running Showcase anthology spotlights spy-thriller hero King Faraday in this 1964 double-feature issue, promising two tales of suspense — "Hunters of the Whispering Gallery!" and "Thunder over Thailand!" Carmine Infantino's cover pencils (inked by Murphy Anderson) plunge us right into the action: Faraday crashes through a shattering plate-glass window, entangled in a fierce struggle while a blonde woman in a pink dress reaches up from below, a camera on the floor nearby hinting at intrigue. It's a tightly composed, kinetic image that captures the cold-war espionage tension Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino bring to King Faraday's world.