Fightin' Army #145

Charlton's Fightin' Army #145 from 1980 promises an unconventional wartime clash, teased right on the cover with the tagline "The Nazis Meet Billy the Kid!" Don Perlin's cover art delivers a tense street scene: a helmeted German soldier looms in a balcony doorway while a wide-brimmed, gun-toting figure in green confronts him across the rubble-strewn urban battlefield, with a secondary vignette below showing soldiers crouched behind sandbags near a cannon. It's a pulpy, energetic setup that mixes WWII grit with a Wild West flavor — exactly the kind of offbeat Charlton storytelling that kept readers coming back.