Battle #21

Atlas Comics' Battle #21 from 1953 delivers the gritty, ground-level intensity this series does so well. Carl Burgos's cover drops you right into close-quarters combat, with a U.S. Marine driving hard against enemy soldiers beside a crumbling wall while tanks and burning buildings rage across the background. The cover promises "To the Shores of Tripoli!" — a Fighting Marines story that, paired with the interior tale "The Major and the M.P.," makes this a packed ten-cent package of wartime drama.