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Cover: Phil Gascoine

The Unknown Soldier #1

Dec 1988 · DC · 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD; 0.80 GBP
📊 ~16,036 copies sold its debut month
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“Looking for Charlie”

DC's mature-readers reimagining of The Unknown Soldier kicks off with this striking #1, cover by Phil Gascoine, which sets the tone immediately: the bandage-wrapped Soldier charges forward through a battlefield of tracer fire and fallen enemies, a blazing German tank looming in the smoke behind him. That tagline — "It only looks like a war story" — is a quiet promise that writer James Owsley and artist Phil Gascoine have something more layered in mind than a straight combat saga. First of twelve chapters, this 1988 series opener makes a confident, intriguing first statement.

writer James Owsley · artist, inker Phil Gascoine · colorist Carl Gafford · letterer John Costanza · cover Phil Gascoine

ComicBooks.com’s Estimated Value

Raw (VF) $7
CGC 9.8 · 3 in census $68
CGC 9.6 none in existence
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $26
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $23
Our estimate · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

artist, inker Phil Gascoine
colorist Carl Gafford
letterer John Costanza
cover pencils, inks Phil Gascoine

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