G.I. Combat #134

DC's long-running war anthology delivers a gut-punch of a cover in this 1969 issue, with Joe Kubert's pencils and inks capturing a desperate battlefield moment: the Haunted Tank rolls through rubble-strewn streets, its gunner firing at enemy armor in the distance, while a crying infant lies abandoned in the tank's path near a street sign reading "Rue de Mort." The crew's exchange — one soldier asking "Jeb, do I hear a baby cryin'?" met with "I hear nothin' but those Tigers — keep rollin'!" — sets up a moral tension that leaps right off the cover. Inside, Robert Kanigher writes "Desert Holocaust" with art by Ross Andru and inks by Mike Esposito, promising the kind of unflinching wartime drama that made G.I. Combat a standout of the genre.