Men's Adventures #16

From the front lines of the Korean War era comes Men's Adventures #16 (1952), an Atlas Comics anthology promising "Warfare, Suspense, Danger" — and the cover by Sol Brodsky delivers on all three. A grimly determined American soldier clutches a bayonet and rifle as he creeps through a night-dark trench, a stunned enemy soldier at his feet and another adversary lunging in from the background. With interior war stories including "Slaughter At Pukchang Pass!" — written and inked by Paul Reinman from a script by Hank Chapman — this ten-cent issue captures the hard-edged tension that made Atlas war comics so compelling in 1952.