Unknown Soldier #224

The bandage-wrapped Unknown Soldier clings to the wing of a Nazi aircraft in Joe Kubert's gripping 1979 cover, grappling with an enemy combatant while a group of armed soldiers looks on from the cockpit. The cover tagline promises "his strangest battle" aboard "The Plane That Never Lands," setting up what sounds like a wild, high-altitude mission with nowhere to touch down. With Bob Haney scripting and Dick Ayers on interior art, this issue delivers the kind of tense, inventive World War II action that made this series a standout in DC's war comics lineup.