Battle Action #16

From Atlas Comics' war anthology comes Battle Action #16 (1955), featuring a cover by Russ Heath that puts you right in the thick of a cold, rain-soaked battlefield. A hooded soldier crouches in the foreground, pistol raised and firing, while fellow combatants advance through the storm behind him — a U.S. Army K-ration crate visible nearby grounding the scene in grim wartime reality. Promising "All New Tales," including the story "I Was a Communist!" with art by Mort Lawrence, this ten-cent issue delivers the tense, atmospheric war storytelling Atlas did so well in the mid-1950s.