Our Army at War #128

Two sergeants separated by an ocean find their fates colliding in the North African desert in this 1963 DC war issue — the cover, drawn and inked by Joe Kubert, captures the brutal intimacy of that clash with two pairs of hands locked in a desert struggle over a rifle, a "POW!" flash erupting between them, while Sgt. Rock's helmet and weapons lie in the sand below and a burning Nazi tank blazes in the background. The cover text teases "Battle of the Sergeants!" — pitting Easy Co.'s Sgt. Rock against Panzer Sergeant Krupp — and Kubert's ground-level composition pulls you right into the sand with them, making the stakes feel immediate and visceral. Robert Kanigher and Kubert were a formidable team on Our Army at War, and this issue's striking desert showdown makes a compelling case for why their run endures.