Battlefront #13

Atlas Comics brought raw Korean War tension to newsstands in September 1953 with this gripping entry in their Battlefront series. Joe Maneely's cover pulls readers directly into the action with a gut-punch perspective: a rifle barrel juts from the foreground as a hostile soldier in a fur-trimmed cap draws a bead on U.N. troops — one of them a wounded soldier on a stretcher being tended by a medic, while a defiant comrade charges forward shouting, "Try to gun down a wounded U.N. soldier, will ya? Take THIS, ya Red Rat!" Inside, Al Carreño brings the story "Siege!" to life with the same unflinching energy that made Atlas war comics a standout of the era.