The 'Nam #43

A close-up pair of bloodshot, haunted eyes dominates this striking cover for The 'Nam #43, framed against deep black with fragmented captions counting down a desperate encounter — "five of them against me… then four… then three… then me and just one poor slob… I don't remember much after that." Wayne Vansant's cover art strips the tension down to something raw and intimate, letting those wide, reddened eyes and sparse text do all the heavy lifting. Chuck Dixon's story "The Weight" promises exactly the kind of unflinching, soldier's-eye view of Vietnam that made this Marvel series stand apart in 1990.