Fightin' Army #141

Charlton's long-running war anthology delivers another gritty front-line scenario in this 1979 issue, with a cover by Sam Glanzman that drops you straight into the chaos — a standing GI raises his rifle amid fire and smoke while his captain orders a halt, the dialogue making clear that the enemy combatants turn out to be kids, and a crouching soldier in the foreground braces against the confusion. The moral tension is written right across the cover in blunt, soldier-speak exchange bubbles, giving the scene an uncomfortable weight that goes beyond typical battlefield action. Inside, Glanzman also handles the art for "The Cross Of Iron," written by Willi Franz, promising the same unflinching ground-level storytelling the cover so vividly sets up.