

He made the Unknown Soldier the lead feature of Star Spangled War Stories with issue #151 (June–July 1970) and initiated titles based on such Edgar Rice Burroughs properties as Tarzan and Korak. Kubert served as DC Comics' director of publications from 1967 to 1976. They introduced Enemy Ace in Our Army at War #151 (Feb. Rock is considered a memorable contribution to the comics medium. Kubert's main collaborator on the war comics was writer/editor Kanigher. Combat would become known as his signature efforts. He and writer Gardner Fox created a new version of Hawkman in The Brave and the Bold #34 (Feb.–March 1961) with the character receiving his own title three years later. Rock and The Haunted Tank in the war comic G.I.

In the coming years, Kubert would work on such characters as the medieval adventurer the Viking Prince and features starring Sgt. The eventual success of the new, science-fiction oriented Flash heralded the wholesale return of superheroes, and the beginning of what fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books. DC editor Julius Schwartz assigned Kubert, Robert Kanigher, and Carmine Infantino to the company's first attempt at reviving superheroes: an updated version of the Flash that would appear in Showcase #4 (Oct. By the end of the year he was drawing for DC exclusively. Beginning with Our Army at War #32 (March 1955), Kubert began to freelance again for DC Comics, in addition to Lev Gleason Publications and Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel Comics.
