Star Spangled War Stories #73

A lone soldier fires a bazooka at near-point-blank range against a looming enemy tank on this tense 1958 DC cover, the muzzle blast and tank's own fire lighting up a smoldering, shell-blasted landscape — it's an image that puts the reader right in the thick of it. Jerry Grandenetti's cover art captures that desperate, one-man-against-armor tension perfectly, setting the stage for the featured story "The Mouse and the Tiger!" along with the promised "flaming action on fighting fronts." Written by Robert Kanigher with interior art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, this ten-cent issue delivers the kind of gritty, grounded war storytelling that made Star Spangled War Stories a reliable home for battlefield drama.