Spy Cases #11

Promising "Battlefield Adventures of Actual Spies!," this June 1952 Marvel anthology drops readers into the thick of Cold War-era intrigue with a tense cover by Sol Brodsky and Chris Rule. The scene crackles with danger — a gunman crouched in the foreground takes aim while an armed figure in the shadows returns fire, as soldiers close in through a doorway behind them. With interior art by Bill Savage on "Scorched Earth!" and a dime price tag, Spy Cases #11 is a sharp little time capsule of the era's appetite for espionage action.