Comic Title: Unknown Soldier #9
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1989
On Sale Date: July 18, 1989 Shipping Date June 13, 1989
Source: Previews, #4

Shipping Date June 13, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #166

Direct Market Date June 15, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #102, #104

Copyright Date July 18, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Across the Line"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Unknown Soldier (Post-Crisis)

Writer: James C. Owsley
Artist: Phil Gascoine
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Unknown Soldier (last appearance in Unknown Soldier #8; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wintley Roth (in flashback to Korea; last appearance in Unknown Soldier #11; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #1)

Villain(s)

• Several Chinese soldiers (Tse Chung and Kun Cho named; in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Several American soldiers (Randy Deloach, Hansen, and Kellerman named; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Tsu Na (a peasant girl; in flashback; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #10)
• Denice Wilson (the Unknown Soldier's daughter; not named in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #10)
• Chang (Tsu Na's brother; in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Unknown Soldier (as Arthur Wilson; during the Korean War; last appearance in Unknown Soldier #11; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #1)

Comments:
This story takes place November 26, 1987, with a flashback which takes place between April 12 and August 13, 1951.

Synopsis:
During the Korean War the Unknown Soldier infiltrated the Chinese army. He was scheduled to be extracted by an American armor unit, but the Americans were ambushed. He was forced to protect the one surviving soldier and was shot on the battlefield. He survived as was nursed back to health by a peasant girl Tsu Na.

After a few months, the Unknown Soldier departed from Korea. Tsu Na tried to contact him, but the Soldier thought she was working for Wintley Roth. He left the country never learning that she was pregnant. More than 35 years later, the soldier is in a New York prison for shooting a KGB agent. He receives a visitor who claims to be his daughter.