Battle Action #5

From Atlas Comics in 1952, this tenth-cent war anthology delivers four battle tales headlined by Pvt. "Battle" Brady. Joe Maneely's cover puts Brady front and center in a ferocious melee — rifle raised overhead, pistol in hand, bayonet glinting — as American GIs and enemy soldiers clash across a rocky battlefield behind him. It's a raw, kinetic snapshot of early-'50s war comics at their most visceral, with Hank Chapman scripting the lead story, "Night Patrol.