Men's Adventures #12

From the Atlas/Marvel war anthology trenches of 1952 comes Men's Adventures #12, promising readers "Warfare • Suspense • Danger" across its stories of combat and survival. Sol Brodsky's cover pulls no punches: a surrendering enemy soldier — red star on his cap, grenade still in hand — raises his arms before two wary American GIs, whose exchange of dialogue ("The only harmless Red is a dead one!") captures the hard-edged tension of Korean War-era comics perfectly. Strip-panel vignettes along the left edge tease additional thrills — a firing squad, close-quarters combat, and a battle-scarred veteran — making this a compact showcase of the gritty war storytelling Robert Q. Sale brings to the interior pages.