Fightin' Marines #36

Charlton's Fightin' Marines #36 packs four combat vignettes onto a single 1960 cover, teasing stories including "Meet a Marine," "The Lucky Number," and "Capt. Caution" — with soldiers armed and under fire across each panel, including a close-up of a grizzled Marine and a helmeted figure blazing away to the sound of "RAT-TA-TA." Cover art by Sam Glanzman, Bill Molno, and inkers Glanzman and Vince Alascia gives the whole thing a punchy, kinetic energy that captures the anthology spirit nicely. At just ten cents, this issue also dangled a Transogram Sweepstakes and the chance to win a real live pony — a reminder that 1960 comics were as much an event as a read.