Fightin' Five #35

Charlton's The Fightin' Five #35 (1965) plunges readers straight into the chaos of combat, with the cover — penciled by Bill Montes and inked by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio — depicting soldiers scrambling through a battle-torn landscape of smoke, flame, and hidden enemies as a red-bereted commander shouts "Spread out!" while a shirtless fighter warns that the foe is literally underfoot. The cover blurb promises the F-5 are "called to the biggest hot-spot in the world" to take on General Chi and his hordes in "Green Death in Vietnam!" It's a tense, kinetic snapshot of Charlton's brand of gritty war storytelling, with Joe Gill writing and Bill Montes on interior art.