Marines in Battle #8

Mid-1950s Atlas war comics don't get more gripping than this — Joe Maneely's cover for Marines in Battle #8 drops you right into the rubble-strewn chaos of "Cross-Roads at Chung-San!", where a squad of helmeted U.S. Marines burst through a shadowed doorway, rifles at the ready, coming face to face with a group of armed enemy soldiers in red uniforms on the other side. The tension crackling between the two sides, set against a backdrop of debris and broken timbers, makes this October 1955 issue impossible to ignore. With interior art by Bob Forgione and Jack Abel and the added promise of "Marine Raid at Munda!" inside, this is a solid wartime package from cover to last page.