Unknown Soldier #216

The bandage-wrapped Unknown Soldier stands in the rain before a flag-draped coffin, trumpet in hand, as a solemn row of helmeted soldiers and white grave markers stretch into the misty background — a cover by Joe Kubert that captures both the weight of sacrifice and the quiet power of a single bugle call. The story title "Taps at Arlington!" poses the haunting question of whether a bugle can sound the difference between defeat and victory. Bob Haney's script, rendered inside by Dick Ayers and Romeo Tanghal, promises the kind of emotionally grounded WWII storytelling that made DC's war titles so compelling in 1978.