Battlefield Action #25

Charlton's Battlefield Action #25 (July 1959) leads with a cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio that puts you right in the heat of it — a helmeted soldier fires his rifle upward as an enemy aircraft erupts in a spectacular burst of flame and debris overhead. The cover teases "The Topkick," a story of a soldier who claims to hate his snarling, tough sergeant even more than the enemy, alongside two additional tales — "Hard-Luck Harrigan" and the action thriller "The Beast" — all written and illustrated by the talented Sam Glanzman. At a dime a copy, this issue packed a genuinely impressive amount of wartime drama into its pages.