Sgt. Rock #378

Joe Kubert's cover for this 1983 DC issue frames a striking, melancholy tableau: a weathered Santa Claus looms large on the left while Sgt. Rock's battle-hardened face peers in from the right, both of them flanking a group of war-displaced children, a nun, and a young boy clutching a ragdoll — all rendered against a smoldering orange sky. The headline says it plainly: "Wars and Holidays Don't Mix for Easy Co." and that tension is written across every face on this cover. Writer Robert Kanigher and artist Frank Redondo bring the story inside, but it's Kubert's quietly haunting image that sets the emotional stakes before you even turn the first page.