The 'Nam #55

Marvel's unflinching Vietnam War series reaches a gut-punch moment with this issue, as the cover — rendered in stark, haunting greens and crimsons by Andy Kubert — shows a soldier kneeling over a fallen comrade in a jungle clearing, screaming into the air with a smoking rifle in hand. The raw anguish on that soldier's face sets a somber, powerful tone for "The Death of Joe Hallen," Part Two of Five. With Chuck Dixon scripting and the artistic team of Wayne Vansant and Tony DeZuniga on interiors, The 'Nam #55 delivers the kind of grounded, human-scale war storytelling this series does so well.