Spy Fighters #5

Federal Agent Clark Mason and his partner Vicki blaze away with pistols as a massive yellow dirigible — marked with a red star and engulfed in dramatic flames — dominates the sky above them in Sol Brodsky's vivid cover for this 1951 Atlas cold-war thriller. The scene crackles with urgency as enemy figures close in on all sides, perfectly setting the stage for "Dirigible of Doom" and two other spy cases the cover promises were "never published before." Spy Fighters #5 delivers that early-'50s espionage excitement in fine style, with Brodsky's kinetic linework making every element — burning airship, gunfire, and all — leap right off the page.