Star Spangled War Stories #152

Joe Kubert's cover for this September 1970 issue says it all — a towering GI charges forward through a firestorm, rifle blazing, while fellow soldiers press behind him through the smoke and chaos, one onlooker declaring he'd "follow him through the Gates of Hades." The raw, kinetic energy Kubert brings to the battlefield scene is matched by the issue's promise of featuring both the Unknown Soldier and Enemy Ace, two of DC's most compelling war-comics headliners. At fifteen cents, Star Spangled War Stories #152 delivers the kind of gritty, ground-level drama that made DC's war line essential reading in 1970.