Fightin' Marines #18

A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter dominates this striking 1956 Charlton cover, banking hard over a battlefield lit by fire and streaked with tracer fire — with soldiers visible through the cockpit and the bold "U.S.M.C." marking leaving no doubt whose skies these are. Bill Molno's pencils and Vince Alascia's inks give the scene real urgency, capturing the chaos of combat from a thrilling aerial perspective. Inside, Joe Gill's writing and Bill Molno's art promise the kind of ground-level Marine action the title delivers with "The Colonel's Jeep.