OUR ARMY AT WAR #248

Cover shows moderate wrinkling and creasing across the upper title banner, with a horizontal crease line visible through the 'ARMY at WAR' logo area. Corners appear moderately rounded/soft with some minor wear, and there is slight surface rubbing near the top edge. The book is in a protective sleeve which obscures fine detail assessment; no major tears, missing pieces, or color breaks are evident, but the wrinkling suggests handling stress. Interior and back cover were not assessed.

Our Army at War #248 is a 1972 issue of DC's long-running war anthology title, appearing well into the era when the book had become almost synonymous with Sgt. Rock and Easy Company. Robert Kanigher, the writer most closely associated with the character's decades-long run, is credited with the lead story, while Joe Kubert, whose gritty, kinetic style defined the visual identity of DC's war line, supplied the cover and very likely pencils on the Rock feature as he did for much of this period. By issue #248 the series had long since settled into its formula of grim frontline drama built around Rock's world-weary leadership, a formula that made the title a steady seller without generating the kind of single-issue landmark moments that drive premium demand decades later.

This issue does not carry a first appearance, death, or other event that collectors track as a key, and it trades accordingly as a mid-run installment of an established anthology. Interest in copies like this one comes chiefly from Kubert cover art collectors and Sgt. Rock completists assembling a run rather than from speculative demand, and the absence of a published fair-market value from standard market data reflects that ordinary, workmanlike status. Condition-sensitive premiums exist mainly at the very top of the grading scale, where scarcity of pristine surviving copies of any 1970s newsstand war comic becomes the primary driver rather than the content of the issue itself.

For most buyers this is a reading and reference copy: an accessible, inexpensive entry point into the Kanigher/Kubert Sgt. Rock era rather than an investment-grade key. Raw copies in low and mid grades move steadily but modestly among war-comic and Kubert enthusiasts, while high-grade slabs occasionally command a real premium purely on eye appeal and rarity in top census grades. Collectors building a complete Our Army at War run will encounter this issue as one of many similar chapters, valued for its place in a beloved creative team's body of work rather than for any singular historical distinction.