Our Army at War #270

Few war comics could stage a moral dilemma with the raw intensity Joe Kubert brings to this 1974 cover — Sgt. Rock stands over a badly wounded, barely human figure consumed by fire and agony, rifle in hand, while his Easy Company soldiers cry out in anguished conflict: one pleading for mercy, another warning that finishing the job would be murder. The tension radiating from those speech balloons is as gripping as anything on a newsstand that summer. Robert Kanigher and George Evans handle the interior with "Spawn of the Devil," promising the same unflinching look at the impossible choices combat forces on ordinary men that made Our Army at War one of DC's most compelling war titles.