Star Spangled War Stories #68

A soldier strains against the chaos of the battlefield on Jerry Grandenetti's cover for this April 1958 DC anthology — a helmeted GI lunges forward mid-combat, rifle in hand, with a rocket blast erupting at his feet and enemy figures closing in from the rubble-strewn background. Star Spangled War Stories #68 leads with "The Long Step!" alongside the promise of additional tales of "flaming action on fighting fronts," written by Robert Kanigher with interior art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. It's a compact, ten-cent package of WWII drama that captures the raw intensity DC's war books did so well in 1958.