The 'Nam #23

Cover artist Pepe Moreno sets a bittersweet holiday tone with a smiling blonde woman in a Santa hat and military jacket posed center-stage, framed by two helmeted MP soldiers in the foreground — a little slice of Christmas cheer dropped right into the middle of the war. The story, "Blue Christmas," promises that writer Doug Murray and artist Wayne Vansant are turning their unflinching eye toward the holidays in Vietnam, where festive and grim sit uncomfortably close together. Marvel's The 'Nam consistently delivered grounded, human-scale storytelling, and this 1988 issue looks to carry that spirit forward.