Our Army at War #225

This November 1970 DC war book puts Sgt. Rock right in the thick of brutal hand-to-hand combat, as Joe Kubert's cover depicts him trading punches with a mass of German soldiers, their swastika-emblazoned helmets and shields pressing in from the right while American GIs scramble in the chaos below. The raw energy of that central brawl — fists flying, bodies colliding — captures exactly the gritty, ground-level combat that made this series a staple of DC's war line. Also promised inside is a "true-to-life battle adventure" featuring the U.S.S. Stevens, making this a particularly packed issue for fans of WWII action comics.