Fightin' Air Force #10

Charlton's Fightin' Air Force #10 from January 1958 leads with a gripping cover by Maurice Whitman and Vince Alascia — a Japanese Zero, its engine blazing and a helmeted pilot visible in the cockpit, screams low over a waterway lined with vessels, the bold headline "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" slashed across the bottom. The cover's dramatic angle and smoky sky put you right in the thick of the Pacific theater, making this one of the more visceral air-war images Charlton put on newsstands that year. At just ten cents, it's a fine snapshot of the "sky battles" anthology format that kept wartime aviation stories flying well into the late 1950s.