Our Army at War #202

Joe Kubert's cover for this February 1969 issue delivers an instantly striking image: Sgt. Rock's helmet, draped with sergeant's stripes and wound with belts of ammunition, sits propped on a rifle in the ground — the universal battlefield memorial — while the grieving soldiers of Easy Company stand around it, one bandaged, another wiping tears. The speech bubbles cry out "It's the End of Easy Company!" and "Sgt. Rock is D-Dead!", lending the scene a raw emotional weight that Kubert renders with his trademark gritty expressiveness. It's a powerful, somber cover that makes Our Army at War #202 genuinely hard to put down before you've opened it.