Fightin' Army #170

Charlton's Fightin' Army #170 spotlights a story titled "The Informer," with interior work by the prolific Joe Gill and Pat Boyette. The cover, penciled by Pat Masulli and Dick Giordano with inks by Giordano, sets up the tension perfectly: a searchlight beam cuts through the darkness, pinning a lone soldier in the open while two enemy figures — one clutching a radio, the other manning the spotlight — close in from the foreground. It's a taut, cold-war-era scenario that captures the paranoid atmosphere of betrayal right there on the cover.