Battlefront #2

From Atlas Comics in 1952, this raw and gripping war anthology delivers gritty frontline action in "The Marines Strike Back," with interior art by Jerry Robinson. Joe Maneely's cover pulls you straight into the chaos — a helmeted soldier crawls desperately through the dirt in the foreground while enemy combatants close in behind him amid a burst of fire and smoke, with a banner of infantry and tanks stretching across the top. It's the kind of visceral, you-are-there cover that made Atlas war books a compelling ten-cent read every month.