Sgt. Fury #80

The cover by Dick Ayers and Bill Everett throws you right into the thick of it — a chaotic breakout scene where the Howling Commandos battle a swarm of Nazi soldiers near a barbed-wire fence, urgently shielding a red-haired civilian woman while a German officer barks the threat "Achtung! If those Amerikaner commandos escape, you will pay with your lives!" The title "To Free a Hostage!" makes the stakes unmistakably clear, and the cover's crowded, kinetic composition captures that desperate scramble perfectly. Stan Lee, Dick Ayers, Carl Hubbell, and Artie Simek deliver another pulse-quickening installment of Marvel's beloved WWII series at just 15 cents.