Fightin' Marines #65

Charlton's Fightin' Marines #65 puts the Korean War front and center, with cover art by Bill Montes and Ernie Bache depicting a steely Marine bearing down with his rifle amid a barrage of gunfire sound effects — "POW," "BOOM," and "RATATATATAT" — while warplanes streak and explode across a fiery sky above. A banner on the cover teases a story called "The Replacement," set in Korea, February 1951, framing it as a month of war and death. Joe Gill's writing and Montes and Bache's interior art promise the kind of gritty, boots-on-the-ground combat storytelling that made Charlton's war titles a reliable read throughout the 1960s.