Battleground #18

Atlas Comics' Battleground #18 from 1957 delivers exactly what the cover promises — tense, ground-level combat told through "all brand-new war tales." Joe Maneely's cover art splits the scene brilliantly between the chaos above ground, where soldiers advance past a tank under heavy fire, and a lone GI crouched in a foxhole below, gripping a rifle and a field telephone with grim determination. Promising stories including "Platoon Trapped!," "They Don't Come Back!," and "The Enemy at Their Back!," this ten-cent Atlas anthology captures the claustrophobic pressure of front-line warfare with art by Gene Colan and colors by Stan Goldberg waiting inside.