Our Army at War #161

DC's WWII flagship delivers another tense standoff in this December 1965 issue featuring Sgt. Rock. Joe Kubert's cover puts Rock front and center, bristling with ammunition belts and leveling his submachine gun directly at a group of enemy soldiers — a Nazi officer in a teal coat and his armed men, weapons raised in a mirror-image confrontation that looks one twitch away from catastrophe. The cover blurb says it all: "Every heart had a bullet aimed at it — the first shot would signal a massacre," teasing the main story "Dead End for a Dogface!" alongside a special battle bonus, "Mig Bait!