Star Spangled War Stories #98

Few comic covers from 1961 capture the sheer audacity of DC's "War That Time Forgot" stories quite like this one — a massive dinosaur rears up and sends a tank flying through the air while soldiers scramble through a jungle landscape alive with tracer fire and palm trees. Ross Andru and Mike Esposito deliver a cover that pits modern military steel against prehistoric muscle, teasing Robert Kanigher's "The Island of Thunder" with real dramatic punch. It's the kind of imaginative collision — dinosaurs versus tanks — that made Star Spangled War Stories genuinely unlike anything else on the spinner racks.