Showcase #104

DC's Showcase spotlight turns to O.S.S. Spies at War in this tense 1978 entry, featuring a Joe Kubert cover that drops you straight into a World War II nightmare. Two captives are suspended above a crowd of armed Nazi soldiers beneath swastika banners, while a menacing figure looms at the right demanding the identity of a spy known as Artur — the dramatic speech balloons making the stakes unmistakably clear. Inside, Bob Kanigher writes and Ric Estrada illustrates "Graves with No Names," promising exactly the kind of shadowy, behind-the-lines intrigue that the cover's tagline — "fiercer than the fighting on the front lines was the secret battle behind the lines" — so effectively sets up.