Battlefront #5

Atlas Comics' Battlefront #5 from 1952 delivers pulse-pounding Korean War tension with a cover by Jerry Robinson that pulls you straight into the action. Crouched beside a military jeep, an American soldier grips a knife while shielding a dark-haired woman in blue — both desperate and alert — as a comrade behind them levels a rifle at a wave of enemy soldiers charging in from the background. Promising stories titled "Behind Red Lines" and "Suicide Mission," this issue makes clear that Robinson's confident linework and dramatic staging were firing on all cylinders.