Battle #8

From Atlas Comics' early-1950s run of gritty war anthologies comes Battle #8 (May 1952), featuring the story "A Time to Die — A Blazing Battle Thriller!" The cover, penciled by Sol Brodsky, puts you right in the thick of it: a determined soldier charges forward with bayonet fixed, cigarette clenched in his teeth, while explosions light up a smoke-filled battlefield behind him and fallen combatants litter the muddy, wire-strewn ground. It's a visceral snapshot of frontline chaos that captures exactly what this series promised — raw, unvarnished combat fiction straight from the Korean War era.