Marines in Battle #17

This April 1957 Atlas war title puts Iron-Mike McGraw front and center in a tense cover by John Severin — a grizzled officer in the foreground grips his rifle while a helmeted Marine charges forward through rocky terrain, enemy soldiers closing in from behind. Severin's crisp linework captures the grim urgency of the featured story, "Surrender or Die!" — a title that leaves little doubt about the stakes on the ground. At a dime a copy, Marines in Battle #17 delivers the kind of hard-edged battlefield drama that made Atlas war comics a staple of 1957 spinner racks.