G.I. Combat #139

DC's long-running wartime anthology delivers another gritty chapter in January 1969, with a cover by Joe Kubert that puts you right in the mud alongside a battle-damaged American tank mired and immobile while a column of vehicles and soldiers pushes on through the chaos behind it. The crew's exchange — one soldier resigned to abandoning the tank on foot, the other relieved they're at least clear of enemy lines — gives the scene a wry, soldier's-eye tension that Kubert captures with his trademark raw energy. Inside, Robert Kanigher and Russ Heath bring "Corner of Hell" to life, promising the kind of ground-level WWII drama that made G.I. Combat a staple of DC's war comics line.