Battlefield Action #55

Charlton's Battlefield Action #55 brings wartime drama down to a deeply human scale with this cover by Dick Giordano, where a small child in a red outfit stands between two armed soldiers — one in American combat fatigues, the other in a blue enemy uniform — hands raised in an arresting image of innocence caught between opposing forces. The featured story, "The Little Finger Man," written by Joe Gill with art by Bill Montes and Ernie Bache, promises the kind of emotionally grounded war storytelling Charlton did so well in 1964. It's a quietly striking issue that reminds readers the best war comics are as much about people as they are about conflict.