Marines in Battle #13

Atlas Comics' war anthology delivers gritty intensity with this 1956 issue, featuring a cover by Joe Maneely that thrusts you straight into the chaos of combat. A determined, blond Marine — Iron-Mike McGraw — lunges forward with his rifle blazing, spent shells flying, while enemy soldiers fire from the smoke-filled background and fellow Marines press the fight across a battle-scarred landscape. Promising the story "Escape of Gen'l Gow-Yok!" alongside interior work by Bob Brown, this is a solid slice of mid-fifties war comics at their most visceral.