Star Spangled War Stories #185

DC's long-running war anthology spotlights the Unknown Soldier in this March 1975 installment, with a Joe Kubert cover that puts the tension front and center: a bandage-faced soldier scales the exterior of a building at night, clinging to a drainpipe while two armed S.S. guards close in from either side — his thought balloon reading "If I can get past these S.S. guards… I'll be home free!" Inside, writer David Michelinie and artist Gerry Talaoc bring "The Hero" to life, promising the kind of gritty, behind-enemy-lines drama that made this series a staple of 1970s DC war comics.