Fightin' Marines #28

This January 1959 Charlton war title puts the grit of ground combat front and center, with a battle-hardened Marine clutching a pistol and a grenade while smoke rises beside him — surrounded by inset panels bursting with sound effects like "RAT-TAT-TAT," "CRASH!," and "TA-DA-DA" that capture the chaos of close-quarters fighting. Maurice Whitman's cover art layers the action beautifully, blending a steely close-up portrait with snapshots of soldiers in the thick of it. With writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Molno delivering "Major Hard-Nose" inside, this ten-cent issue is a solid slice of Charlton's no-frills, boots-on-the-ground approach to war comics.