Secret Messages
NBM · 2001–2002 · 5 issues
About the series
Over a five-issue run from NBM, Secret Messages is a Cold War espionage thriller by writer Larry Hancock and artists Michael Cherkas and Paul McCusker. The series follows a covert CIA unit as it intercepts and deciphers encrypted Soviet communications, blending historical tradecraft with shadowy political intrigue. It stands as a taut, researched addition to the spy-comics genre, capturing the paranoia and procedural grit of the early 1960s intelligence world.