Our Army at War #69

This April 1958 DC war title delivers the kind of gut-punch tension the series does so well — the cover by Jerry Grandenetti splits the image between a battle-worn GI pressed against cover in extreme close-up, his face streaked with rain and stress, and a green-uniformed enemy soldier advancing with rifle ready through a smoke-filled, smoldering landscape. The stark contrast between the intimate despair of that close-up face and the wider battlefield danger in the background makes the threat feel immediate and inescapable. Inside, Robert Kanigher's featured story "Combat Cage!" promises more of the hard-hitting battle-action storytelling that made Our Army at War one of 1958's most compelling war anthologies.