G.I. Combat #162

Joe Kubert's cover for this 1973 DC war title pulls no punches: a wounded American soldier clings desperately to the hatch of the Haunted Tank — marked with its white star — while an enemy German tank looms massively overhead, its long gun barrel bearing down and flames erupting in the background. The soldier's anguished words ("I'm hurt too bad… to make it out!") capture the harrowing stakes as Jeb faces an almost impossible situation. With Archie Goodwin writing and Sam Glanzman on interior art, G.I. Combat #162 delivers the gritty, human side of armored warfare that made this series such a compelling corner of DC's 1970s lineup.