Our Fighting Forces #160

In "Ivan," Jack Kirby crafts a morally charged wartime tale as the Losers, posing as SS agents in Soviet Russia, face a harrowing choice when a mother and her son offer safe passage—only to betray them to the Nazis. Kirby’s stark storytelling, rendered with precision by his own pencils and Royer’s inks, builds tension around a single, devastating moment of justice and retribution. The cover by Joe Kubert captures the story’s grim intensity, a striking image of a boy’s fate hanging in the balance.