Combat Kelly #7

Marvel's 1973 war series delivers another tense chapter with Combat Kelly and His Deadly Dozen #7, subtitled "The War-Mag for People Who Hate War!" The cover by Dick Ayers and Jack Abel pulls you right into the action: a nun and a disguised soldier in a German uniform press against a doorway in hushed, weapons-drawn urgency, while through the opening Kelly's armed squad fans out across a seemingly abandoned building — the speech bubbles warning to "be ready for anything" perfectly capturing the hair-trigger atmosphere. Writer Gary Friedrich and artist Dick Ayers keep the squad's gritty ensemble energy front and center in what looks to be another morally charged WWII mission for this unlikely band of soldiers.