G.I. Combat #135

Joe Kubert's cover for this 1969 DC war book captures a striking, morally charged moment: elderly French civilians — some hunched, one pushed in a wheelchair — scramble desperately in the path of a German tank bearing a red cross insignia, while the Haunted Tank engages in the smoky background. The defiant battle cry "The Nazis Shall Not Pass!" underscores the urgency, with French soldiers rallying to shield their American allies amid the chaos of a war-torn street. It's a cover that leads with human stakes as much as battlefield action, a hallmark of Robert Kanigher's G.I. Combat at its most compelling.