Spy Thrillers #3

This March 1955 Atlas anthology delivers exactly what the title promises: a hero in a yellow trench coat launches himself through a low railway tunnel entrance, scattering a ring of armed soldiers while a red-haired woman is caught in the middle of the chaos. The cover pencils by Carl Burgos and inks by Sol Brodsky give the scene a wonderfully kinetic energy, right down to the speech balloon — "Hold your fire! The tunnel will take care of him!" — that suggests the odds are very much stacked against our outnumbered operative. With an interior story titled "Safari of Death!" and the promise of all brand-new spy tales, this ten-cent issue is a crisp snapshot of Cold War–era espionage adventure at its pulpy best.