T-Man #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Trouble's Double," a briefcase containing explosive secrets threatens to ignite a crisis across Europe after a train wreck in the Alps leaves it missing—now it's up to T-Man to track it down before the Russians do. With art by Irvin Steinberg and a striking cover by Reed Crandall and Chuck Cuidera, this 1952 Quality Comics thriller delivers high-stakes espionage in a crisp, classic style.
When T-Man Pete Trask is urgently recalled from a fishing trip to Iran, he discovers that someone has been impersonating him—sabotaging a crucial oil treaty by insulting diplomats and turning them toward the Soviets. Racing to uncover the impostor before world peace crumbles, Trask must navigate a web of espionage, double-crosses, and one very confused woman who keeps slapping the wrong man. With Soviet agents closing in and his doppelgänger still loose, Trask has to think fast to expose the real villain behind this dangerous game of mistaken identity.
Narcotics agent Oscar W. Polcuch goes undercover as a wealthy Hollywood buyer to infiltrate a smuggling ring led by the cunning Jesus Demara operating out of Calexico in 1947. After weeks of false meetings and careful surveillance, Polcuch arranges what should be the big score—138 cans of opium to be delivered at Woodbine Check—but the smugglers spring a deadly ambush that erupts into a fierce firefight under cover of darkness. A tense night of gunfire and strategy unfolds as Polcuch and his fellow customs agents fight to bring down the operation.
Treasury Agent T-Man Pete Trask finds himself stranded aboard the Pacific cruise ship Lua when it collides with a submerged Russian submarine in the South Seas. As Trask discovers that Soviet agent Vorov is aboard the vessel and communicating with the damaged sub—which carries a dangerous new rocket-launcher prototype—he must race to prevent the enemy from retrieving their secret weapon before the Navy arrives. What follows is a desperate underwater battle as Trask pursues a Russian diver in the depths, where survival itself becomes the greatest adversary.
When a briefcase containing data capable of detonating half of Europe goes missing after a railway crash in the Alps, T-Man Pete Trask must race against time to recover it—before Mac Laird, Vito Fiore, and the shadowy villains Gus and Hilda Beausac do.
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Reprinted in T-Man #31 (1956), T-Man #33 (1956), T-Man #1 (1957), Men of Mystery Comics #55 (2005)
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