Our Army at War #293

Joe Kubert's cover for this June 1976 issue puts Sgt. Rock front and center — battered, bare-chested beneath an ammo bandolier, submachine gun in hand — while his Easy Company soldiers urge him forward toward the enemy. A tense lower panel shows Allied and Nazi soldiers locked in close-quarters underwater combat, knife in play, swastika armbands making the stakes unmistakably clear. With Sam Glanzman handling the full interior duties on "It Figures!" and Kubert setting the scene so vividly up front, Our Army at War #293 delivers the gritty WWII action the series does so well.