G.I. Combat #259

Joe Kubert's cover for G.I. Combat #259 pulls no punches: an Allied soldier and a Nazi enemy grapple furiously atop a tank, locked in desperate hand-to-hand combat with a knife in play — raw, intimate warfare rendered with Kubert's unmistakable kinetic draftsmanship. The November 1983 issue bills itself as "America's No. 1 Fighting Mag," and with five story titles promised inside — including "One Last Shot," "Sweet Taste of Death," and "A Trinket from Time" — it makes a compelling case for that claim. Robert Kanigher and Sam Glanzman bring their WWII storytelling chops to the interior pages, making this a fine package for fans of DC's long-running war anthology tradition.