The 'Nam #46

This 1990 Marvel entry in the gritty Vietnam War series puts a memorably unsavory figure front and center: a smirking, bandana-wearing black-market trader in olive drab, cigarette dangling from his lips and a fistful of cash in hand, with syringes and vials laid out on the table before him — all while boasting that he's got "genuine U.S. Issue" goods. George Evans's cover art captures the moral rot lurking behind the front lines with unflinching detail. With Chuck Dixon writing and Wayne Vansant and Tony DeZuniga on interior art, "On the Clock" promises the kind of hard-edged storytelling that kept The 'Nam one of the most grounded war comics of its era.