Army Attack #39

This 1965 Charlton war comic drops readers straight into the thick of WWII, with the cover — penciled by Pat Masulli and inked by Rocco Mastroserio — depicting a desperate standoff: four determined Allied soldiers face portraits looming above a mass of enemy troops, a German tank bearing an iron cross, and soldiers bearing Nazi insignia in the foreground. The bold cover copy — "4 Men Battle 20,000" and "Dead Men Can't Die…!" — sets a tone of grim, defiant courage against overwhelming odds. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Charles Nicholas (inked by Jon D'Agostino) bring you "The Professional," promising the kind of hard-edged WWII storytelling that made Charlton's war titles a staple of the era.