Battle #33

From Atlas Comics' long-running war anthology comes Battle #33, cover-penciled and inked by Joe Maneely. The cover drops you right into the thick of it: three American GIs crouch at the front, one gripping a rifle while another mans a detonator box, barking "Ready… Number Two Detonator!" — as a massive explosion tears through enemy lines behind them, sending figures and a tank flying amid a wall of fire and smoke. It's a tense, kinetic snapshot of infantry warfare that captures exactly what Battle Adventures of Combat promised its readers in October 1954, with interior art by Joe Sinnott on the story "Defense.