Fightin' Marines #39

A combat-worn Marine dominates this 1961 Charlton cover, rifle in hand, admitting in a speech balloon that bravery isn't what drove him — it was plain fear — while a fellow soldier below calls out his remarkable feat against a machine gun nest. Sam Glanzman's cover art captures that gritty, self-deprecating humor that made war comics of the era feel surprisingly human, headlined by the story title "Rough, Tough and Yellow." It's a ten-cent slice of battlefield storytelling that leads into "Nerve Center!" by writer Joe Gill and artist Charles Nicholas, inked by Dick Giordano.