Star Spangled War Stories #76

This December 1958 DC war anthology puts the spotlight on a story called "Odd Man," and Joe Kubert's cover sets the tension immediately: a helmeted soldier, bound with rope and clutching a pistol, dangles precariously from a low-flying aircraft while tracer fire streaks past and a warship burns on the icy waters below. It's a dizzyingly kinetic image — Kubert's draftsmanship captures both the chaos of combat and the sheer improbability of the soldier's situation with real confidence and flair. With Bob Haney writing and Mort Drucker on interior art, Star Spangled War Stories #76 delivers the kind of pulpy, high-stakes military adventure that made DC's war titles genuinely compelling reading in the late '50s.