Sgt. Rock #422

This 1988 issue bills itself as a "Kubert Triple Threat" — Joe, Andy, and Adam Kubert working together — and the cover by Joe Kubert makes a strong case for the family's collective talent. The image plunges the viewer right into the chaos, with Sgt. Rock tumbling through churning water surrounded by armed combatants, his weathered face and ammo-draped body filling the foreground in a dizzying, almost vertiginous composition. "Rehearsal for Death" promises the kind of gritty WWII intensity that has always defined this series, and with Robert Kanigher scripting alongside the Kubert family on art duties, this one carries serious creative firepower.