Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Sgt. Rock Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: November 14, 2007 Direct Market Date November 14, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 544
Editor: Bob Harras

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Soldiers Never Die"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted From:
Our Army at War #98 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Sgt. Rock (last appearance in Our Army at War #97; next appearance in Our Army at War #99)

Supporting Character(s)

• Easy Company (Midge, Williams, Thomas, Nathan, and Marty named; last appearance in Our Army at War #97; next appearance in Our Army at War #99)
• Willie (a member of Easy Company; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Various German troops (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A sniper ambushes Easy Company killing a member named Willie. Rock consoles Willie's friend Midge by telling him that "soldiers never die." Midge is still distraught when Easy runs across a squad of Germans in a captured tank. Rock destroys the tank for Al March, a member of Easy who died in North Africa.

Rock and Easy later encounter a machine gun nest hidden in a haystack. Rock takes them out. During the fight, he remembers Arch Yancey a soldier who died at Omaha Beach. When Easy falls under fire from a patrol boat, Rock tries to take it out for Willie. He is wounded and can't toss his grenade. Midge finishes the job, finally understanding that by remembering his buddy, he can continue on.