Unknown Soldier #230

The bandage-wrapped Unknown Soldier stands at the center of this tense 1979 DC cover, using a battered, shirtless blond figure as a human shield while enemy soldiers close in from every angle with rifles and submachine guns drawn. Joe Kubert's cover art gives the scene a gritty, desperate energy — the Soldier barefoot and cornered yet defiant, every inch of the composition crackling with threat. The story title promises a mission of no return in "To Save a Spy," with interior work by Bob Haney, Dick Ayers, Gerry Talaoc, and the rest of the creative team behind one of DC's most compelling war titles.