G.I. Combat #72

DC's long-running war anthology delivers a gripping May 1959 installment with this Joe Kubert cover that puts you right in the thick of brutal close-quarters combat — an American GI and an enemy soldier locked in a desperate struggle over a pistol inside what appears to be a tank hatch, each fighter straining against the other with everything they've got. The raw tension Kubert captures in those two faces — grimacing, determined, neither man giving an inch — is the kind of visceral image that made G.I. Combat one of the most compelling war titles of its era. Featuring "The G.I. and the Tank!" with interior work by writer Bob Haney and artist Mort Drucker, this 10-cent issue is a fine snapshot of DC war comics firing on all cylinders.