Battlefront #9

Battlefront #9 brings Atlas Comics' Korean War series roaring into February 1953, spotlighting "the pride of the infantry — Combat Kelly!" Al Hartley's cover captures a fierce close-quarters clash, with a helmeted American soldier raising a rifle butt to strike while enemy soldiers in red uniforms scramble and recoil across a shell-torn landscape, and fellow GIs press the attack in the background. Writer Hank Chapman pairs with Hartley on the interior story "Thou Shall Not Pass!!!" — a title that sets the tone perfectly for this gritty, boots-on-the-ground ten-cent adventure.