Star Spangled War Stories #79

A tense aerial battlefield fills every inch of Joe Kubert's cover for this 1959 DC issue, with a determined pilot gripping his cockpit controls in the foreground while an enemy aircraft explodes in a shower of debris just beyond his canopy. The promise of "The Zero Box" plus additional "stories of flaming action on fighting fronts" makes this an especially packed entry in DC's premier war anthology. Writer Robert Kanigher and artist Jerry Grandenetti deliver the interior fireworks, but Kubert's cover alone captures the white-knuckle drama of aerial combat with striking immediacy.