The 'Nam #1

Marvel's The 'Nam arrived in December 1986 with a striking first issue whose Michael Golden cover lays out the full scope of the conflict in one sweeping composition — U.S. soldiers moving through dense jungle, a Huey helicopter low overhead, tanks rolling through smoke and fire, and a stylized map of Vietnam anchoring it all together. The sheer density of the image captures both the chaos and the human scale of the war, from individual infantrymen in the foreground to distant explosions filling the horizon. Writer Doug Murray and artist Michael Golden bring a ground-level seriousness to the material that sets this series apart from the start.