Star Spangled War Stories
"The Devil's General"
Cover Date March 1969
Issue #143
Pages 23
Type Original Stories
Cover Price 15¢
Synopsis
A fallen German comrade forces von Hammer to confront the futility of their shared war. The friend he mourns died not in glory but in mechanical failure — the triplane's engine quit far from the front. Von Hammer performs the funeral rites himself, alone in the forest.
Collector Notes
The most intimate issue of the run to this point. Kanigher strips away the heroics to examine the mundane tragedy at war's edges — a death without meaning, mourned by a man who has made killing his life's work.
Creative Team
Writer Robert Kanigher
Penciler Joe Kubert
Inker Joe Kubert
Letterer Ben Oda
