Attack #12

Attack #12 brings Charlton's gritty naval war anthology to vivid life on a cover penciled and inked by Don Perlin. The scene crackles with tension: aboard a battle-damaged destroyer wreathed in smoke and flame, a determined officer in a naval cap reaches down toward a crouching medic tending to a wounded sailor, while an incoming projectile streaks toward the hull — all of it anchored by the cover's own caption promising a story of sudden, desperate command. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Charles Nicholas (inked by Vince Alascia) deliver the kind of hard-edged military storytelling that made Charlton's war titles a reliable twenty-cent thrill in 1973.