Unusual Tales - The Atomic Clerk

"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.

"The Atomic Clerk" is a 5-page story published by Charlton in STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES #34 [1957]. A quick little Cold War thriller about a minor Pentagon employee who finds himself caught in a web of intrigue. I especially like a lot of the panels on page 4, with a nice mix of drama and suspense.

This story appears in the Snyder/Ditko publication TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER #16 [2015], so I'm only showing the first page below.

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