Fightin' Marines #67

Charlton's Fightin' Marines #67 drops readers right into the heat of a Pacific amphibious assault, with a hard-edged DI screaming orders — "Move! Or I'll chop you down myself!" — as helmeted Marines surge through churning water, rifles and ammo belts at the ready. The cover copy sets up a compelling character study: a drill instructor so mean, so rotten, so inhuman that his men hated him even more in combat than they did in training, branding him "Worse Than the Japs!" Cover art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Pat Masulli captures the gritty intensity Charlton's war titles did so well in 1966, and the interior story "Picture-Book Marine" — written by Joe Gill with art by Charles Nicholas and inks by Vince Alascia — promises the kind of tough, human drama that made this series a reliable read.