Our Army at War #139

Joe Kubert's cover for this February 1964 DC war comic crackles with urgency: Sgt. Rock lunges through chaotic harbor waters to drag a wounded U.S. Navy sailor to safety, while enemy vessels bearing swastikas blaze and explode all around them. The sailor pleads "Leave me… Rock… save yourself--!" but Rock's defiant shout — "Easy never abandons a man--!" — captures the squad's iron code perfectly. With the story promising that Sgt. Rock faces "the dead-end sights of a Firing Squad for Easy!," this issue delivers exactly the kind of high-stakes, boots-in-the-mud drama that made Our Army at War one of DC's most compelling war titles of the 1960s.