Star Spangled War Stories #195

Star Spangled War Stories #195 brings DC's masked mystery fighter, the Unknown Soldier, to one of his tensest cover moments of 1976 — a band of armed enemy soldiers bearing down in a rubber assault raft while a bandaged figure lies submerged in dark water below, knife in hand, seemingly playing dead. Joe Kubert's cover work crackles with grim atmosphere, using the split above-and-below-water composition to put readers right in the middle of the danger. Inside, writer Don Edwing and artist/inker Dave Manak deliver "The Deathmasters," promising the kind of gritty wartime suspense this series does so well.