Star Spangled War Stories #131 (3.0)

Title: Star Spangled War Stories
Issue: #131
Publisher: DC
Year: 08/1952
Grade: GD/VG 3.0

The book’s first issue under its new war title (after Star-Spangled Comics) pivots into a straight combat-anthology. It strings together several stand-alone tales from different branches: a green rifleman learns to keep his head on a night patrol; paratroopers fight house-to-house to secure a crossroads; a bomber crew tries to nurse a shot-up plane home; and a Navy team clears a mined channel ahead of a dawn landing. One-page training/“life in the service” fillers punctuate the action. The tone is gritty and procedural—ordinary GIs solving tactical problems under fire—setting the template the series would follow for years.