Star Spangled War Stories #38

This October 1955 DC anthology delivers "One-Man Navy!" alongside a promise of blazing combat stories, all wrapped in a gripping Russ Heath cover. Heath's artwork places three helmeted, rifle-armed German soldiers in a rubber raft bearing down on the scene, while a lone underwater swimmer — knife in hand, clad in diving gear — surges up through the churning water to meet them. The tension between that solitary, determined figure below and the armed trio above says everything about the kind of gritty, against-the-odds wartime drama Robert Kanigher and Heath brought to DC's war line in 1955.