Spy Fighters #2

Cold War tension leaps off this 1951 Atlas/Marvel cover, where federal agent Clark Mason is caught in a desperate struggle — a villain raises a knife overhead while a blonde woman sits bound to a chair and a bald gunman looms in the doorway, all rendered in vivid pulp style by cover penciler Sol Brodsky and inker Christopher Rule. The banner promise of "spy cases torn from actual official records" sets the stage for three stories including "Brute of Budapest," with interior art by George Tuska and writing by Robert Bernstein. At a dime a copy, this was early-fifties espionage storytelling firing on all cylinders.