Battle #36

From Atlas Comics' long-running war anthology comes Battle #36, on sale monthly in January 1955 for just a dime. John Severin and Carl Burgos deliver a tense cover scene: a helmeted American soldier draws a crossbow at close quarters while a red-capped enemy combatant crouches below, a pistol tumbling free — all framed against a wall bearing portrait photographs of two enemy commanders. Inside, Dick Ayers illustrates "The Trap of Colonel Huli!," promising exactly the kind of gritty, frontline drama that made Atlas war titles a staple of mid-1950s newsstands.