Joe Palooka Comics #73

A tense Korean War-era cover by Al Avison thrusts readers right into the action, with a soldier crashing through on a motorcycle, trading point-blank gunfire with an enemy combatant while another figure scrambles below. The cover blurb sets the stage for "Guerrilla Guns," teasing that holding the Red Horde in Korea wasn't enough — now a new threat emerges. At a dime a copy in 1952, Joe Palooka's Battle Adventures delivered the kind of visceral, boots-on-the-ground tension that kept wartime comics flying off the racks.