Star Spangled War Stories #176

DC's long-running wartime anthology puts the Unknown Soldier front and center in this December 1973 issue, with a Ken Barr cover that crackles with urgency: the bandage-wrapped soldier charges through a smoke-filled, barbed-wire-strewn battlefield, shielding a young blonde girl while aiming his submachine gun — all as a German Luftwaffe jet swoops ominously overhead. Frank Robbins and Jack Sparling bring the interior story, "Target… The Unknown Soldier," promising the kind of tense behind-enemy-lines action that made this series a staple of early '70s war comics.