Sgt. Rock #366

Joe Kubert's cover for this July 1982 DC issue pulls you straight into the grit of combat survival — a group of helmeted soldiers, including Sgt. Rock himself, desperately drinking from a shallow puddle while skulls loom ominously beneath the water's surface. The banter between Rock urging "Take it slow, easy!!" and a comrade warning about a belly-ache gives the scene an almost dark humor that only wartime fiction can pull off. The story teaser — "What happens when Rock meets a 'Thirty Year Man'?" — promises something intriguing ahead from writer Robert Kanigher and artist Frank Redondo.