G.I. Combat #90

A helmeted soldier grips his pistol and peers cautiously through a curtain of blinding yellow light — a dramatic moment captured on Jerry Grandenetti's cover for this November 1961 installment of DC's long-running war anthology. Looming in the foreground, a massive skeletal or stone face and a tank barrel add an eerie, otherworldly tension that perfectly suits the series' signature feature, "The Haunted Tank." With Robert Kanigher writing and Russ Heath on interior art, G.I. Combat #90 delivers the gritty wartime storytelling that made this title a standout on 1961 spinner racks.