The Atlas Comics Library No. 11: Spy Cases

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Collected for the first time, the secret agents in Marvel's spy comics from the 1950s keep Cold War America safe from Red agents and saboteurs. Shortly after launching his men's adventure line of comic books in 1949 (and just before he published his first war title), Atlas publisher Martin Goodman found, in the middle ground between crime and men's adventure, the sneakier, conspiratorial sub-genre of spy comics. The first title was? Spy Cases ?(soon followed by? Spy Fighters ?and? Kent Blake of