As a child of the 1970s, with a budding talent for art and an appreciation for history instilled by my parents, I was heavily affected by the war-related comic books of the period: Sgt. Rock, GI Combat, Our Army at War, Weird War Tales, Attack!, Star-Spangled War Stories, and various other lines. I knew even then that the comic stories weren’t very realistic – recurring characters who managed to fight in every theatre of World War II, for example, or faceless German and Japanese soldiers mowed down by invulnerable Americans, or bloodless battlefield deaths – but at seven or eleven years old, they were a palatable introduction to a very adult topic. The main attraction, for me, were the illustrations, by now-legendary craftsmen like Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Wally Wood, Frank Redondo, and comparable talents who churned out a gallery of comic covers and interior panels month after month. Yes, they were sanitized, idealized, and jingo-ized depictions of complex and brutal realities (which were already fading from popular memory by 1975), but within their own very restricted formulae, they still stand as essential portrayals of Twentieth-Century warfare. I salute them, and pay them homage here.