Magic Agent Comic

John Force, the main character of this series, had minor super powers, or at least a super-powered device; but his "costume" consisted only of a trench coat and an eye patch.<br/>The coat marked him as spy and the patch merely reinforced the identification. John Force's was to do America's dirty work back in the early Cold War era, when any fictional agent of the U.S. government was automatically a good guy.<br/>His super-powered device was a magical coin containing an image of a building done in the Greek Revival style of architecture, i.e., with columns in front. By pressing the appropriate column, he could create realistic illusions, read other people's thoughts, or implant powerful hypnotic suggestions. He was also good at hand-to-hand combat, i.e., fist-fighting, when the coin got lost or stolen, as is bound to happen frequently in a series of this type.<br/>John Force was introduced in ACG's Magic Agent #1, dated Jan-Feb 1962. Magic Agent folded with its third issue (May-June 1962), and it was a couple of years before he was seen again.