G.I. Combat #76

Jerry Grandenetti's cover for this September 1959 DC war title is a gut-punch of battlefield tension — a wounded GI lies pinned in a foxhole, desperately thrusting a grenade upward toward the looming barrel of an enemy tank bearing down from above. The low-angle perspective puts you right in the dirt alongside him, making the danger feel immediate and claustrophobic. With Bob Haney writing and Joe Kubert on interior art, G.I. Combat #76 — priced at just a dime — delivers the gritty, ground-level drama that made this series a staple of 1950s war comics.