Fightin' Army #143

Charlton's long-running war anthology returns with issue #143, and the cover by Demetrio Sánchez Gómez drops you straight into a desperate aerial engagement — a U.S. fighter aircraft banking hard while an enemy plane bears down with guns blazing, tracer fire lighting up the sky above a patchwork European landscape. The pilot's words say it all: "Half the Kraut air force in the sky, and we're sittin' ducks!" It's exactly the kind of grim, boots-on-the-ground (or wings-in-the-air) tension that made Fightin' Army a reliable pick for war comics fans in 1980, with interior stories penned by the prolific Joe Gill.