Our Army at War #271

Cover artist Joe Kubert puts Sgt. Rock right in the thick of it — perched on the sloping face of a dam, trading fire with a burning enemy bomber screaming overhead while his Easy Company comrades scramble around him under fire. The cover caption's urgent warning — "That enemy bomber's goin' to rip the top of this dam to pieces!" — sets the stakes perfectly for the promised "gut-grabbing combat saga," "Brittle Harvest," written and illustrated by Russ Heath. At just 20 cents in 1974, this issue packs the kind of front-line intensity that made Our Army at War one of DC's most compelling war titles.