Fightin' Marines #37

Charlton's Fightin' Marines #37 brings the heat with Sam Glanzman's cover depicting a grinning, rifle-wielding Marine charging forward alongside his squad, bullets literally bouncing off one soldier with a dramatic "TZING!" — and the bold question "Old Armorplate?" set against a second scene of a helmeted Marine amid a storm of "BAM" and "RAT-TAT" sound effects. The story teased inside — "The Marine Who Couldn't Die" — is written by Joe Gill with art by Bill Molno and Vince Alascia, promising the kind of rugged, larger-than-life combat storytelling Charlton did so well in 1960. At a dime a copy, this is a fine snapshot of mid-century war comics firing on all cylinders.