Sgt. Rock #402

Joe Kubert's cover for this July 1985 issue tells a quietly gut-wrenching story all on its own: the scarred, battle-worn face of Wildman fills the foreground, bandaged and steely-eyed beside an American flag, while he mutters "Th- they're giving me a medal... I don't deserve!" Behind him, rows of soldiers stand at attention amid rumbling tanks, and in the middle distance a wounded GI in a wheelchair is being honored — a ceremony that clearly weighs heavily on Easy Company's roughest fighter. Robert Kanigher and Frank Redondo bring "Wildman's Story" to life inside, promising the kind of morally complex WWII storytelling that made Sgt. Rock one of DC's most enduring war titles.