![]() I’m pretty sure I put this on my TBR list way back when I read a similar volume of Enemy Ace comics because the Unknown Soldier starred in Star Spangled War Stories alongside that character. (This review originally appeared in The Austin Chronicle, January 19, 2007.) This and every story here reads like a mini-Mission Impossible episode and contains some of the best work of Kubert's career. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, he completes his mission but not before suffering Nazi tortures. To rescue a woman who smuggled Jews out of Nazi-occupied territory, the Unknown Soldier, posing as a Jew, gets placed in a concentration camp. With the aid of scripter Bob Haney, Kubert produced a powerful story that presaged his acclaimed 2003 graphic novel, Yossel: April 19, 1943. 158, August-September 1971) elevated the series. ![]() However, the eighth story in the collection, "Totentanz" (Star Spangled War Stories No. The stories are littered with historical events – including a stint impersonating Adolf Hitler – so much so that you begin to wonder if the Unknown Soldier, like some comics version of Forrest Gump, was involved in every major happening of the war. The never-named Unknown Soldier's earliest missions, while entertaining, are standard military-comics fare. Created by the legendary Joe Kubert, The Unknown Soldier follows a hideously scarred soldier who expertly assumes different identities through various World War II espionage missions in the European and Asian theatres. ![]()
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