Sgt. Fury #65

The headline "Eric Koenig… Traitor!" sets a sharp, unsettling tone for this 1969 Marvel wartime thriller, and John Severin's cover makes the accusation feel utterly convincing — Koenig stands front and center in a Nazi officer's blue uniform, arm raised in salute, surrounded by a sea of similarly saluting soldiers. Encircling him in circular portrait insets are six members of the Howling Commandos, each wearing an expression that runs the gamut from grim disbelief to barely contained fury. Gary Friedrich's story "Blood Is Thicker!" promises the kind of morally charged tension that made Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos one of Marvel's most compelling war books.