Marines in Battle #16

Atlas Comics' Marines in Battle #16 from February 1957 delivers a tense, kinetic cover by Carl Burgos, showing a determined Marine charging forward with pistol drawn while his fellow gyrenes press the assault through a war-torn village — and a menacing enemy soldier in a red-starred cap looms large in the foreground, shouting defiance. The cover promises two gripping tales: Iron-Mike McGraw and his Marines ordered to "Take the Red Town!" and the mysterious "Secret Raiders!" At a dime a copy, this was frontline action storytelling at its most immediate.