Attack #8

This November 1972 Charlton war anthology opens on a hauntingly evocative cover by Leo Duranona: a robed old woman plays an organ amid the rubble of a shattered church, colorful musical notes drifting upward while a column of helmeted soldiers advances through the wreckage behind her, with a inset panel above suggesting even more troops closing in. The cover caption tells us these were "bitter, war weary men" whose encounter with her music proved "perhaps too comforting" — teasing a story called "The Organist" with quiet, unsettling tension. Inside, Joe Gill and Warren Sattler deliver "A Nice Clean War!," making this a fine entry in Charlton's gritty, street-level approach to combat storytelling.