Battle #58

This 1958 entry in Marvel's long-running war anthology delivers the kind of stark, tense battlefield drama the series was known for. John Severin's cover art — rendered in both pencils and inks — captures a dramatic standoff: a wave of helmeted soldiers charging forward against a fiery orange sky while blue-uniformed troops in the foreground raise their weapons, with the desperate cry "There they are! It's now or never!" hanging in the air. The lead story, "One Second Till Doom!," promises the kind of pressure-cooker combat storytelling that defined war comics of the era, with interior art from Gene Colan and lettering by Joe Letterese.