Battlefield Action #52

This 1964 Charlton war title delivers the kind of frontline intensity that made Battlefield Action a staple of the genre. The cover by Pat Masulli and Dick Giordano puts you right in the action: a lone American GI crouches in a rocky outcropping, his machine gun blazing as a wave of enemy soldiers charges across open ground toward him — his speech balloon daring them forward with "Come on, you cowards, come on and die with me!" It's a striking, kinetic image that sets up the lead story "Die Alone" with real dramatic weight, backed by interior work from writer Joe Gill and artist/inker Bill Molno.