Combat Kelly #5

The cover by Dick Ayers and Jim Mooney crackles with desperate energy: Combat Kelly — shirtless and armed — fights back-to-back with a determined blonde woman in red as enemy soldiers close in from all sides around what looks like a fortified compound. The story title "Escape from Devil's Island!" and the cover's own blazing caption "Escape — or Die!" make the stakes unmistakably clear. With Gary Friedrich scripting and Dick Ayers on interior art, this 1973 Marvel war book delivers exactly the gritty, no-exit tension it promises.