Fightin' Air Force #40

The cover of this September 1963 Charlton war title pulls you right into the action — an enemy jet bearing a red star fills the foreground as its guns blaze "RAT-A-TAT-TAT" across a field where a lone American airman scrambles for his life, while a U.S. fighter marked "FUST" sweeps in overhead. Dick Giordano's cover art captures the split-second tension of aerial combat brought suddenly, terrifyingly to the ground. Inside, Joe Gill's story "The Enemy Died Twice" promises a duel taken all the way to its bitter conclusion.