Battlefield Action #82

Charlton's long-running war anthology delivers another tense dispatch with Battlefield Action #82, and the cover by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia says it all — a weary sergeant, helmet low and grenades at his belt, reels as enemy fire blazes toward him with a thunderous "RATATATATAT," his thought bubble grimly admitting, "Now they've got me good!" It's a striking, ground-level snapshot of a soldier caught in a desperate moment, rendered with the gritty immediacy that defined Charlton's war titles. Inside, Joe Gill's story "The Decision" — illustrated by Bill Molno — promises the kind of tough, human-scale combat drama that kept readers coming back in 1983.