Battlefield Action #46

Charlton's Battlefield Action #46 delivers a tense wartime standoff right on its cover, penciled and inked by Dick Giordano: a cigarette-smoking American GI clutches a swastika-emblazoned book while a blond, armed enemy soldier levels a pistol at him with the chilling words, "Now that you have read what is in my book, fool — you must die!" A wide-eyed young civilian witnesses the confrontation from behind a curtain, adding an extra layer of danger to the scene. With the featured story "Who Saved Whom?" promising to unravel who gets the upper hand, and Bill Molno handling interior art, this 1963 issue offers the kind of gripping WWII drama that made Charlton war comics a reliable thrill.