Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Unknown Soldier Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: November 22, 2006 Direct Market Date November 22, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #8 (#212)

Direct Market Date November 22, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 552
Editor: Bob Harras

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (I Knew the Unknown Soldier)
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Sgt. Rock (of Earth-1)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted From:
Our Army at War #168 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Sgt. Rock (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)

Supporting Character(s)

• Easy Company (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)
• Bulldozer (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)
• Ice Cream Soldier (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)
• Wild Man (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)
• Little Sure Shot (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #170)
• Jackie Johnson (last appearance in Our Army at War #167; next appearance in Our Army at War #169)
• Zack (last appearance in Our Army at War #165; next appearance in Our Army at War #219)

Villain(s)

• Various Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed soldier (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
The unknown soldier in this story is not the same Unknown Solider that would later star in Star Spangled War Stories. This unknown soldier is killed at the end of the story.

Synopsis:
Sgt. Rock and Easy Company are pinned down by an enemy gun position located on a cliff. Rock witnesses a lone soldier swing down from the top of the cliff and destroy the enemy guns. However, the soldier disappears. When the soldier saves Easy again, Rock wants to know who the soldier is. However, the other members of the company think Rock is imagining the phantom soldier.

Rock then moves forward alone and encounters enemy tanks. A flash of light temporarily blinds him, but he hears another soldier destroy the tanks. The soldier then leads him back to Easy beore dying while covering the rear. The soldier's body is recovered, but his identity is unknown. The body is taken home and buried in the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.