Fightin' Army #29

Charlton's Fightin' Army #29 (1959) charges forward with a cover penciled by Charles Nicholas and inked by Vince Alascia, depicting a battle-worn soldier in goggles and olive fatigues sprinting through an explosion-filled battlefield, machine gun with ammo belt in hand, with a tank visible through the smoke and fire behind him. The tagline "1,000 Miles to Freedom!" promises the kind of desperate, against-all-odds drama that made Charlton's war titles so compelling in the late 1950s. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist/inker Sam Glanzman deliver "Safe & Sane Hero" — and a contest promising 8,000 prizes makes this a memorable package from cover to back page.