Battlefront #24

Atlas Comics brought the heat with Battlefront #24, and Joe Maneely's cover makes the intensity impossible to miss. A squad of American GIs crouches in a muddy trench — one clutching a grenade, another raising a flamethrower — while enemy soldiers in dark uniforms crawl desperately across the shellfire-torn ground ahead of them, explosions lighting up the night sky in vivid reds and oranges. It's the kind of raw, ground-level war drama that made Atlas's 1954 combat titles so compelling, and with Robert Q. Sale handling the interior art on "Holed-Up," the action doesn't let up once you turn the page.