Men's Adventures #11

From the Atlas Comics war anthology comes Men's Adventures #11, December 1951 — and the cover by Sol Brodsky and Tom Gill drops you right into the chaos. A machine gunner mans his weapon amid explosions and smoke while soldiers scramble through a devastated trench, their exchange — "Retreat?! To where?? We got our backs to the wall now!" — perfectly capturing the desperate, no-exit tension the series promised. Bottom-strip teasers for "Death of a Soldier!," "Captive City!," and "Guard Duty!" (with interior art by Paul Reinman) round out an issue that lives up to every word of its "Warfare • Suspense • Danger" banner.