Fightin' Air Force #12

This 1958 Charlton giant delivers a striking cover by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia: a helmeted, goggle-wearing airman is framed dead-center within a circular gun turret, twin rockets blazing on either side of him while enemy aircraft swarm below — a composition that pulls you right into the cockpit tension. At 100 big pages of triple value, it's a remarkable package for a quarter, collecting multiple aviation war stories including the evocatively titled "The Push-Button War Of The Future -- Guided Missiles!" Inside, Joe Gill's writing and Sam Glanzman's art bring that jet-age anxiety about emerging missile technology to life for readers navigating the early years of the Cold War.