Fightin' Marines #158

Charlton's long-running war anthology delivers another tense entry with issue #158, cover-dated September 1981. Bill Molno's cover art drops readers straight into a jungle standoff — two helmeted Marines confront each other at gunpoint amid palm trees and a blazing explosion, while a third soldier crouches between them, caught in the middle of what the speech bubbles make clear is a dangerous breakdown of command. It's a gripping, ground-level depiction of battlefield pressure that sets the stage for the "Clay Pigeon" story within.