Star Spangled War Stories #203

The Unknown Soldier finds himself in a genuinely impossible spot on Joe Kubert's cover for this January 1976 issue — his bandaged face resolute as he stands between a Nazi general bearing a swastika armband and a towering, long-haired assassin drawing a bow, with a crowd of armed soldiers pressing in from behind. The cover's desperate caption — "I've got to save that Nazi General — even if it costs me my own life!" — captures the morally tangled missions that made this series so compelling. David Michelinie's "Curtain Call," illustrated by Gerry Talaoc, promises exactly the kind of high-stakes, behind-enemy-lines tension that defined DC's war comics at their finest.