Unknown Soldier

Genres: Action, Adventure, Graphic Novels, Horror, Mature, Sci-Fi, War
Publisher: DC Comics

Vol 1: Apr/May 1977 – October 1982
This title formerly called Star-Spangled War Stories; see Our Army at War #168 for 1st app. Cover by Joe Kubert. Legends Never Die!, script by Bob Haney, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Gerry Talaoc; The Unknown Soldier helps hold a vital position during the Battle of the Bulge; Flashback to his childhood, and the explosion that made him the Unknown Soldier. And Then There Was One, script by Steve Skeates, art by Ric Estrada; Details on how Lt. Larry Rock recieved the head-wound that causes him spells of momentary madness; Larry Rock is the brother of Sgt. Rock, who’s stories take place in the Pacific.

Vol 2: January 1988 – December 1989
The Unknown Soldier is a character that first appeared back in 1966 in a series originally entitled Our Army At War which was basically Sgt. Rock’s personal volume for the latter portion of its run. However, he made his own lengthy run in DC’s Star Spangled War Stories, a volume that had began almost 15 years before the character’s first appearance though it was in the early 70’s that he took over it. After about a 50 issue run, in 1977 the series was renamed Unknown Soldier with issue 205 and so it remained until the series concluded with issue 268. Six years later a second volume was made, The Unknown Soldier which lasted for twelve issues. Many individuals however see this series as being non-canon as the Unknown Soldier is rather different from the original. This time the wait for another volume was eight years when Vertigo had Garth Ennis publish a four issue miniseries also entitled Unknown Soldier that focused upon a man trying to find out the truth about the Unknown Soldier. Most recently a fourth volume currently running came into print, Unknown Soldier, which focuses upon a new man fighting for Africa rather than America and during more recent years rather than World War II.

Vol 3: April 1997 – July 1997
The Unknown Soldier is a character that first appeared back in 1966 in a series originally entitled Our Army At War which was basically Sgt. Rock’s personal volume for the latter portion of its run. However, he made his own lengthy run in DC’s Star Spangled War Stories, a volume that had began almost 15 years before the character’s first appearance though it was in the early 70’s that he took over it. After about a 50 issue run, in 1977 the series was renamed Unknown Soldier with issue 205 and so it remained until the series concluded with issue 268. Six years later a second volume was made, The Unknown Soldier which lasted for twelve issues. Many individuals however see this series as being non-canon as the Unknown Soldier is rather different from the original. This time the wait for another volume was eight years when Vertigo had Garth Ennis publish a four issue miniseries also entitled Unknown Soldier that focused upon a man trying to find out the truth about the Unknown Soldier. Most recently a fourth volume currently running came into print, Unknown Soldier, which focuses upon a new man fighting for Africa rather than America and during more recent years rather than World War II.

Vol 4: December 2008 – December 2010
Welcome to Northern Uganda. In 2002, it’s a place where tourists are hacked to death with machetes, 12-year-olds with AK-47s wage war, and celebrities futilely try to get people to care. Moses Lwanga is a pacifist doctor caught at the center. But when his life is threatened, Moses suddenly realizes he knows how to kill all too well. What is this voice telling him the only way to fix what’s wrong with the country is by slaughtering those responsible? And what is Moses’ connection to another past bandage-wrapped warrior?

Unknown Soldier

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