The 'Nam #38

Marvel's unflinching Vietnam War series delivers another tense chapter with this December 1989 issue, where the cover — penciled and inked by Mark Texeira — puts soldiers in immediate, harrowing danger amid dense jungle grass. A U.S. soldier stands frozen in the center, wide-eyed with alarm, as a comrade is sent airborne by an unseen blast to the left, while the ominous cover caption spells out the double threat: "If the sniper doesn't kill him — the land mine will!" With Doug Murray writing and Wayne Vansant on interior art, The 'Nam continues its ground-level, real-time portrayal of the war with a story titled "Booby Trapped" that promises no shortage of battlefield dread.