Marine War Heroes #12

In the gritty pages of *Marine War Heroes* #12, Captain Louis Marulli steps into the shadow of the legendary Captain Joe Haller, tasked with reshaping Able Company just before their assault on Luzon. As the weight of command presses down, Marulli must earn his place in the fire of battle—without ever having been there before.

Joe Landis faces a nightmare of doubt when voices call to him from the darkness—claiming to be his missing friend Hanson and the others lost on patrol. The enemy has learned a brutal trick: mimicking the dying to lure Marines into ambush, and Joe must decide whether to trust his instincts or risk everything on a desperate gamble. This 1966 war story pits a soldier's hope against hard-won battlefield wisdom in a single, haunting night.

During the desperate retreat from Chosin Reservoir in 1966, Sgt. Jim Moore and his No-Hope Squad are tasked with holding a critical hilltop while wounded Marines are airlifted to safety and supplies are dropped—a mission that grows grimmer as enemy forces close in and squad members fall wounded. With casualties mounting and escape impossible, Moore and his men make a stand to buy time for their fellows, determined to hold the line no matter the cost. When air support arrives at the darkest moment, the squad discovers their sacrifice hasn't gone unnoticed.

When the Marines landed on Iwo Jima in February 1945, they knew they were heading into a volcanic hellscape packed with over 20,000 Japanese defenders across three airfields, honeycomb caves, and fortified positions—a meat grinder that would claim more than 40,000 casualties in just 28 days of fighting. This is the brutal story of how American forces hunted the enemy through pill-boxes and into the volcano itself, scaling Mount Suribachi against overwhelming odds to claim one of the final stepping stones toward Tokyo. Their indomitable will to win and faithfulness under fire would prove the difference between victory and a war that might have lasted far longer.