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Issue Details

Issue #68
Published January 1959
Cover Price .10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth; Robert Kanigher (actual)
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (20 January 2008)

Cover Details - "The Rock!"

Genre War
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Jerry Grandenetti
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (20 January 2008)
Reprinted in The Sgt. Rock Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 2002

12 page story "The Rock!"

Characters The Rock
Synopsis "The Rock" was a boxer who refused to stay down who became a one-man army when he refused to stay down and held the line against the German Army.
Genre War
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)
Notes This is a prototype of the "Sgt Rock" character.
Reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #DC-9; in Our Army at War (DC, 1952 series) #242; in The Sgt. Rock Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 2002; in Sgt. Rock's Combat Tales (DC, 2005 series) #1

5 page story "Write Your Own Book"

Genre War
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (20 January 2008)

5 page story "Battle Flare"

Genre War
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Jerry Grandenetti
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (20 January 2008)