Star Spangled War Stories #122

Few comics from 1965 could match DC's audacious promise to "break all the rules," and this Russ Heath cover delivers on that boast with jaw-dropping confidence — a massive, tank-crushing dinosaur towers over a churning waterline while soldiers scramble desperately atop a battered military tank below. Heath's draftsmanship is on full display, balancing the prehistoric terror of the looming creature against the very human struggle of the men fighting back with nothing but their bare hands. Robert Kanigher's "The Divers of Death" looks to be exactly the kind of wild, anything-goes war adventure that made Star Spangled War Stories one of DC's most thrillingly unpredictable titles of the era.