Star Spangled War Stories #183

A chilling December 1974 entry in DC's long-running war anthology, this issue features the Unknown Soldier in a tense cover by Joe Kubert that says it all without a word of interior story needed. The Soldier — his face a horrifying skeletal mask beneath a Nazi SS officer's uniform — looms over a frightened blond captive while armed German soldiers appear in the doorway, one demanding, "Colonel… where are you?" It's a masterfully unsettling image that captures the Unknown Soldier's signature game of dangerous disguise, and with Bob Kanigher writing and Frank Thorne on interior art, "8,000 to One" promises the kind of gritty, high-stakes wartime drama this series delivered so reliably.