Battlefield Action #61

A tense standoff anchors this December 1965 entry in Charlton's long-running war anthology, with cover art by Pat Masulli and Rocco Mastroserio depicting a Nazi officer — hands raised, claiming friendship — caught between wary Allied soldiers and what appears to be a group of beaten, docile prisoners emerging from the woods. The speech bubbles crackle with suspicion ("Look out, sir! It's a Nazi!") and the German's smooth insistence ("Friends? Ja! Friends!"), setting up the featured story "Friend or Foe?" perfectly. Joe Gill's script and Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia's interior art promise the kind of sharp, morally charged wartime drama that made Battlefield Action a reliable treat for combat comics fans.