The Unknown Soldier #6

Part six of this twelve-part DC mature-readers series by James Owsley and Phil Gascoine arrives with a cover that's quietly unsettling — the bandage-wrapped face of the Unknown Soldier peers up from beneath a gloved hand reaching toward a pistol, while another fist grips what appears to be a Molotov cocktail, its flame already lit. The tagline "It only looks like a war story" is a perfectly calibrated tease, suggesting the espionage and identity themes running through this 1989 series cut deeper than the battlefield imagery implies. Phil Gascoine's cover work gives the composition an intimate, ground-level tension that makes this installment of "The Replacement" feel genuinely compelling.