Sgt. Rock #393

Joe Kubert's cover for this October 1984 issue delivers an immediately arresting image: a figure in a purple dress and polka-dot headscarf scrambles forward clutching grenades, with a basket full of more grenades at hand, while tracer fire and explosions erupt behind a line of advancing soldiers. The story title "Soldier in a Dress" is teased perfectly by that striking visual contrast — battlefield chaos framing someone who looks anything but a conventional combatant. Robert Kanigher's writing and Frank Redondo's interior art, colored by Tatjana Wood, promise the kind of gritty, human war storytelling that made Sgt. Rock a DC staple throughout the early '80s.