Star Spangled War Stories #45

From the skies of 1956 combat, this DC war anthology drops readers right into the heat of aerial battle — the cover by Jerry Grandenetti captures a paratrooper tumbling through a massive explosion while warplanes streak across the yellow sky below, as a helmeted soldier in a yellow flight suit watches tensely from the edge of a platform. Headlining the issue is "Flying Heels!," written by Robert Kanigher with interior art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, promising "other stories of flaming action on fighting fronts" alongside it. Star Spangled War Stories #45 delivers exactly the kind of breathless, boots-and-bombers drama that made DC's war titles a staple of mid-1950s comics.