G.I. Joe Special Missions #2

Three G.I. Joe operatives are pinned down in a fierce firefight on this December 1986 cover — one soldier roars as he lays down heavy machine-gun fire, a second takes aim prone with a rifle, and a third opens up with a handgun while buildings erupt in flames and explosions all around them. Mike Zeck's pencils and Dennis Janke's inks give the chaos a raw, kinetic intensity that perfectly suits the grounded, covert-ops tone of this spin-off series. With Larry Hama writing and Herb Trimpe on interior art, Special Missions #2 promises the kind of boots-on-the-ground action that made this era of G.I. Joe comics so compelling.