Star Spangled War Stories #135

One of DC's most delightfully off-kilter war comics of 1967, this issue of Star Spangled War Stories drops two enemy pilots — one wearing an American flight jacket, the other a Japanese insignia — side by side on a beach, united against something far stranger than each other. Russ Heath's cover depicts the unlikely pair scrambling against a towering orange tyrannosaur and a green dinosaur bursting from the surf around a shattered boat, the cover copy promising a "strange pact to battle the invasion of monsters." Heath's draftsmanship brings both the human tension and the prehistoric chaos to vivid life, making "Save My Life and Kill Me!" an irresistible snapshot of Silver Age war comics at their most wonderfully wild.