Never Again #8

Charlton's anti-war anthology Never Again returns with issue #8, subtitled "The War to End All Wars," and the cover by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito puts you right in the thick of combat — a steel-helmeted soldier grips his rifle in the foreground, jaw set and eyes hard, while behind him a warship sits on the horizon beneath bursting flak and a plane trailing smoke. Bob Forgione contributes interior art to the issue's story "Career Man," rounding out what looks like a tense, grounded look at the human cost of war. For a 1956 dime, this is the kind of earnest war comics storytelling Charlton did with real conviction.