Submarine Attack #50

This Charlton war title delivers tense naval drama right on its cover, where Dick Giordano's multi-panel layout tells a gripping visual story: Executive Officer Ahearn is caught on deck during an attack, enemy forces capture him from a patrol boat, and a menacing Japanese officer threatens to extract secrets while a U.S. submarine lurks nearby. The story title "The Hostage" anchors the bottom panels, where two determined sailors — one gripping a combat knife — set out on what the cover frames as a desperate rescue mission. With interior work from the reliable team of writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Molno, this 1965 issue of Submarine Attack offers the kind of straightforward, pulse-quickening wartime storytelling that made Charlton's military comics a staple of the era.