Our Army at War #228

A haunting Joe Kubert cover sets the moral stakes immediately: an anguished old man cradles a fallen young soldier wearing a swastika armband, while Sgt. Rock looms in the foreground, his back to us, ammunition belt draped over his shoulder. The accusation in the speech balloon — "Are you p-proud of yourself, Herr Sergeant… that you killed a mere boy?" — cuts right to the heart of what made this 1971 series so compelling, asking hard questions about war that few comics dared to voice. Robert Kanigher's "It's a Dirty War!" promises exactly the kind of morally charged storytelling that elevated Our Army at War above standard combat fare.