Star Spangled War Stories #187

Joe Kubert's cover for this May 1975 DC issue is genuinely unsettling — a skeletal Nazi officer in a blue uniform, swastika armband prominent, looms forward with arms outstretched while armed soldiers flank him and shadowy figures cower in the background. It's a striking piece of war-horror imagery that sets a grim, tense tone for the Unknown Soldier's latest mission, "A Death in the Chapel," written by David Michelinie with interior art by Gerry Talaoc. For fans of DC's war comics at their most atmospheric, this quarter-priced issue delivers a cover that stops you cold.