Battle #57

Cover art by Bill Everett pulls you right into the chaos of close-quarters combat: a grimacing American soldier crawls through rubble in the foreground while enemy troops brandishing weapons advance through a burning, debris-strewn village behind him, with a tank looming in the smoke-filled distance. The tagline "Who Knows What a Man Will Do… Under Fire!" perfectly frames the tension crackling across every inch of this 1958 Atlas-era war anthology. Promising "All Brand-New Battle Adventures," this issue also teases the story "He Can't Come Back Alive" — the kind of grim, pressure-cooker premise that made Battle a standout of its era.