Fightin' Marines #38

A pulse-pounding snapshot of Marine combat, this November 1960 Charlton issue features a Sam Glanzman cover that tells its story in vivid panels: Marine PFC Clay Mulk mans a machine gun through a grueling jungle firefight, with bold "RATA TAT TAT" and "POW" sound effects crackling across a tropical beachhead identified as Tarawa. The tagline "Who Gets the Medal?" adds a compelling human question to all that battlefield intensity, while Joe Gill's scripting and Bill Molno and Vince Alascia's interior art promise the kind of gritty, boots-on-the-ground action that made Charlton's war titles a dime well spent in 1960.