G.I. Combat #192

Part of DC's 1976 Bicentennial celebration, G.I. Combat #192 features the Haunted Tank and opens a brand-new O.S.S. spy series, making it a genuinely packed issue. Luis Dominguez's cover sets up a tense, ironic scene: armed German soldiers lurk in the shadowed foreground while the tank crew, oblivious to the threat closing in behind them, cheerfully declares they're safe among "only a bunch of schoolgirls" — the young women waving flowers in welcome. It's a perfectly crafted moment of dramatic suspense that captures exactly the kind of battlefield wit and danger that made G.I. Combat a staple of DC's war line.