Battlefield Action #69

Charlton's Battlefield Action #69 puts the tension front and center: a determined soldier dangles from a rope under enemy fire while a commanding officer looms large in the foreground, and a speech bubble — mixing Japanese characters with the urgent English cry "Kill Him…!! Kill Joe!!" — makes clear this soldier is in serious trouble. Pat Boyette's cover work delivers a gripping snapshot of wartime danger, with a squad of enemy troops pressing in through the background smoke. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist/inker Sam Glanzman bring the story "The Viet Cong and the Peaceniks" to life, promising the kind of gritty, ground-level war storytelling Charlton fans came to rely on in 1981.