Battlefield Action #42

This Charlton war title delivers a tense cover scene — a soldier in blue confronts a defiant captive with a resounding "SPLAT," while a rifle-toting figure looms in the foreground and oil derricks blaze in the smoky background. The speech balloons crackle with attitude, and Jack Keller's pencils, finished by Dick Giordano's inks, give the whole chaotic moment a punchy, kinetic energy. Battlefield Action #42 is a fine slice of 1962 Cold War-era comics drama, with Joe Gill writing and Bill Molno on interior art.