G.I. Combat #193

Joe Kubert's cover for this August 1976 issue captures a pulse-pounding WWII moment: the Haunted Tank bears down at full speed while a young blond child clutches a small white animal and crouches in its path, an enemy German tank firing in pursuit from the left. The desperate speech balloon — "Keep goin', Slim — FASTER… before that Kraut tags us!" — perfectly frames the tension between protecting the innocent and surviving the battlefield. Inside, Robert Kanigher and Sam Glanzman deliver "The War That Had to Wait," plus the second installment of a spy series spotlighting the O.S.S.