Man Comics #21

From Atlas Comics' Men at War line, this December 1952 issue of Man Comics (#21) wastes no time delivering on its tagline of "Dangerous Battles… Breathless Suspense!" The cover — penciled and inked by Robert Q. Sale and Carl Burgos — drops you right into the thick of it: a helmeted soldier looms over a fallen enemy, rifle in hand, while comrades press forward through smoke and flames in the harrowing story teased as "Action at Ming-Po Pass!" Inside, Gene Colan (with inks and colors by Stan Goldberg and Stan Goldberg respectively) brings the tension home in "Death Stand," making this a tightly packed ten-cent package of wartime drama.