Our Army at War #125

Sgt. Rock stands front and center on Joe Kubert's cover, twin ammo belts crossed over his chest and weapon in hand, defiant amid a firestorm of enemy tracer fire while his Easy Co. soldiers fight low to the ground around him — one wounded, one returning fire, tanks blazing on the horizon behind them. The cover caption promises that "fighting men have nightmares" about what Rock and the Combat-Happy Joes were stuck with, making "Hold-- At All Costs!" sound like the kind of desperate, outnumbered stand that defines the series at its gritty best. With Robert Kanigher writing and Russ Heath on interior art, this December 1962 issue delivers the battlefield intensity that made Our Army at War one of DC's most respected war titles of its era.