Battle #6

Russ Heath's cover for this 1952 Atlas war title crackles with battlefield urgency — a star-marked Army truck barrels through a firestorm while enemy soldiers open up with a machine gun at close range, explosions tearing apart the hillside convoy behind it. The promise of "Battle Adventures of Troops in Combat" is delivered in full here, with Heath's crisp linework capturing smoke, tracer fire, and scrambling figures in a scene that feels genuinely kinetic. With Hank Chapman's "Truck Convoy" inside, this ten-cent package offered early 1950s readers some of the most gripping combat storytelling on the stands.