Fightin' Army #46

This 1962 Charlton war title delivers the kind of grim battlefield intensity the series was known for, with a cover by Jack Abel and Dick Giordano that lays out the tension in stark comic-strip panels. A steely American soldier in his helmet looms in close-up while a figure manning a weapon scans the brush, and the haunting caption — "The war does strange things to a man… war made him an animal" — sets the stage for the featured story, "The Major's All-Out War!" A taut lower panel shows a soldier face-to-face with an enemy officer as the chilling command "Take No Prisoners!" hangs in the air, making this an arresting snapshot of war-comic storytelling at its most uncompromising.