Fightin' Air Force #23

A stricken fighter plane engulfed in flames dominates this 1960 Charlton cover, with a desperate pilot crying out "They got me! I gotta get outa this flyin' coffin!" — a visceral snapshot of aerial combat at its most harrowing. Sam Glanzman's cover art captures both the sheer scale of the doomed aircraft and the raw human terror of the man inside, making for a genuinely gripping image. The featured story teases Major Spud Lewis and "The Boys Upstairs," promising the kind of gritty wartime drama that made Charlton's Fightin' Air Force a reliable ten-cent thrill.