Fightin' Army #114

Charlton's Fightin' Army #114 (1974) puts ordinary men in the thick of combat on a cover by Bill Molno that crackles with urgent energy — a war correspondent leaps from a star-marked U.S. Army truck as enemy fire pings all around, while a soldier on the truck bed returns fire at a stricken aircraft exploding overhead. The speech bubbles say it all: nobody here signed up to be a hero, yet here they are, caught in the crunch together. With interior work by writer Joe Gill and artist/inker Tom Sutton, this issue looks to deliver the gritty, ground-level wartime drama that made Charlton's war titles a satisfying read throughout the 1970s.