Star Spangled War Stories #202

The Unknown Soldier's cover-blowing moment is rendered with real punch here — disguised in a Nazi SS officer's uniform, his bandaged face is exposed mid-confrontation as enemy soldiers close in with raised rifles, and a speech bubble drives the stakes home: "Your masquerade is finished, American spy— and so are you!" Jack Sparling's pencils and Vince Colletta's inks make the tension crackle across this 1976 issue, promising DC's novel-length thriller format at its most gripping. David Michelinie's script "The Cure," brought to life by Gerry Talaoc's interior art, gives fans of WWII espionage exactly the kind of behind-enemy-lines drama this series does so well.