Battlefield Action #79

Charlton's long-running war anthology rolls into issue #79 with a cover by Dick Giordano that puts you right in the thick of it — Allied soldiers scramble in the foreground as a star-marked tank anchors the chaos, a gunner firing from the turret while an enemy aircraft takes a fiery hit overhead. Explosions and smoke fill every corner of the composition, capturing that tense, ground-level urgency Charlton did so well in 1983. Inside, Joe Gill's "Hatchet Man" promises the kind of hard-nosed combat storytelling that kept this series going strong.