Battle Action #24

Cover artist Russ Heath puts you right in the heat of combat with this August 1956 Atlas war title — a grimly determined U.S. soldier fills the foreground, rifle blazing, while his embattled squadmates hold a crumbling position behind him and enemy figures press in from the lower right. The cover story, "Our Platoon Is Trapped!", sets a tense, high-stakes tone that carries through the promise of all-new stories inside, with interior art by Gene Colan. At just ten cents, Battle Action #24 delivers the gritty battlefield drama that made Atlas war comics a staple of mid-1950s newsstands.