Fightin' Marines #76

Charlton's Fightin' Marines #76 spotlights a story called "The Company of Walking Dead," and the cover — penciled and inked by Carlos Casalla — wastes no time setting the mood: two helmeted Marines in combat gear are caught mid-confrontation in the field, rifles in hand, their tense exchange of words visible in speech bubbles against a stark red background, while a third soldier observes from the foreground. The featured story carries the punchy subtitle "The Misfit!," hinting at the friction and unit drama that writer Joe Gill and artist Charles Nicholas (inked by Vince Alascia) bring to this 1967 war title. Fans of gritty, ground-level military comics will find this twelve-cent Charlton issue a satisfying read.