*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: A briefly flourishing field after the superheroes faded in the Fifties was the ‘Spy’ sub-genre, an offshoot of the crime comics, in which daring, cool-headed agents thwarted the onset of the Red Hordes, aided, and sometimes opposed, by slinky and dangerous ladies. Atlas’ Spy Fighters was one such, launched in 1951 and starring fearless federal agent Clark Mason as he travelled the world fighting for peace… by any means necessary! We have most of Spy Fighters’ 15-issue run, from #1 (FN £72, pictured) to 1953’s #15, when the title, like most crime comics, fell foul of the incipient Comics Code.