Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Haunted Tank Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: May 31, 2006 Direct Market Date May 17, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #2 (#206)

Direct Market Date May 31, 2006
Source: ComicList, New and Upcoming Releases for Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Target for a Firing Squad"
Pages: 18

Feature(s):
Haunted Tank (of Earth-1)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Irving H. Novick

Reprinted From:
G.I. Combat #119 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Haunted Tank (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in Our Army at War #172)
• Jeb Stuart (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in Our Army at War #172)

Supporting Character(s)

• General J.E.B. Stuart (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in G.I. Combat #120)
• Rick Rawlins (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in G.I. Combat #120)
• Arch Asher (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in G.I. Combat #120)
• Slim Stryker (last appearance in G.I. Combat #118; next appearance in G.I. Combat #120)

Villain(s)

• Various Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An american deserter (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Jeb Stuart and his crew encounter an american deserter who is headed toward a firing squad. Before the execution, a Naxi plane crashes nearby. The deserter is able to escape in the confusion. He grabs a gun and takes Jeb hostage inside the Haunted Tank.

The soldier was an infantryman that had been traumatized by the danger he had faced. He thinks that Stuart and his crew have it easy riding around inside the armored tank. When the tank sees action though, he soon learns that they are in danger too. Jeb even helps the man instead of trying to escape.

When Jeb and his crew are then trapped in a building, a grenade comes through the window. Slim dives on the grenade and smothers it to save his buddies. The deserter learns courage from these men and sacrifices himself to destroy a Nazi tank that threatens them.