Battlefield Action #33

Charlton's Battlefield Action #33 brings the heat of close-quarters combat right to the cover, with Sam Glanzman's linework capturing a steel-helmeted soldier charging forward with his weapon at the ready, surrounded by comrades amid bursting sound effects — "BAM," "TATTA," and "POW" — that practically rattle off the page. A inset panel below teases soldiers under fire, bullets zipping past as debris fills the air around them. The lead story, "Strong Point!" (as headlined on the cover), promises the kind of gritty, ground-level WWII action that made Charlton's war books a solid ten-cent buy in 1960.