Marines in Battle #20

A tense Korean War standoff leaps off this November 1957 cover by Carl Burgos, where a captured Marine in torn fatigues stands hands raised, defiantly taunting his captors about their destroyed ammo dump as enemy soldiers close in from both sides with weapons drawn — all against a sky blazing orange from the burning wreckage behind them. The dialogue exchange crackles with bravado, and the story teased inside, "And One Was Left Behind," promises the kind of gritty frontline drama that made Marines in Battle a compelling war anthology. Interior art from George Tuska, inked by himself and lettered by Joe Letterese, rounds out what looks to be a gripping issue.