Star Spangled War Stories #35

This July 1955 DC ten-center puts you right at the water's edge, with a dramatic foreground hand checking a wristwatch as U.S. soldiers wade ashore through surf and smoke, explosions lighting up the beachhead behind them — a tightly composed cover by Jerry Grandenetti that captures the tension of a military assault in progress. The issue features "Zero Hour!" alongside additional blazing combat stories, with interior work by the creative team of writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru with inker Mike Esposito. Star Spangled War Stories #35 is a solid slice of mid-fifties war comics at their most visceral and earnest.