Fightin' Five #44

Charlton's dependable action team returns in Fightin' Five #44 (1982), with a striking yellow cover by Dick Giordano showing four members of the squad in blue uniforms and red berets, armed and urgent — trading anxious exclamations ("We've got to stop it!" / "Impossible!" / "How?") as they scramble into action against a threat the cover boldly promises is "mighty… all-powerful… unbeatable!" Writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Montes (inked by Ernie Bache) bring the interior story, "The Ransom of 'Big D,'" suggesting the team faces a high-stakes crisis that has them genuinely rattled. A solid entry in Charlton's war-adventure line at an era when the publisher was delivering reliable genre thrills for just 60 cents.