Spy Cases #14

This December 1952 Atlas Comics entry delivers exactly what its banner promises — "Battlefield Adventures of Actual Spies!" — with a cover by Sol Brodsky that puts two grimacing, close-quarters combatants front and center: a green-uniformed American agent and a snarling enemy officer in a red-starred military cap, their weapons locked in a tense standoff as flames and a soldier in a helmet loom in the fiery background. Inside, writer and artist Bill Savage brings "City of Corpses" to life, promising the kind of Cold War tension that made Spy Cases a favorite for readers hungry for espionage action in the early fifties. At a dime a copy, this was edge-of-your-seat entertainment straight from the front lines of the spy game.