Our Army at War #215

This February 1970 DC issue puts Sgt. Rock in a chilling bind, with a Nazi officer dressed in blue uniform and swastika armband playing a flute like a sinister Pied Piper while a group of children huddle around him as unwilling leverage. A woman and a resistance fighter look on in alarm, the cover's desperate speech bubbles — "No, Sgt. Rock… do not touch the Piper… or our children are doomed!" — framing the impossible moral stakes that define the best of this series. Joe Kubert's cover art captures the tension with characteristic grit, and inside, writer Robert Kanigher and artist Russ Heath deliver the WWII drama that made Our Army at War one of DC's most compelling war titles of its era.