Weird War Tales #74, from April of 1979. So many liberties are taken here with science and history that it's almost impossible to keep up with them. Tanks running around in the snowy mountains of Scandinavia, tank crews dressed up in nice warm clothes like they just came out of a Macy's Annual Sale, woolly mammoths suddenly coming to life after years in the ice, and instant domestication of the animal by a crew that uses their destroyed tank parts (after the mammoth stomped it to bits) to build an Indian-style canopy on top so they can ride the beast in comfort. The artists and writer responsible for this goofiness I'm sure had plenty of time for research, but they obviously didn't take it. They couldn't even get the time frame right for when the woolly mammoth was alive. Mind you, cryogenics was a very big fad around that time, and like cold fusion, we all thought it would usher in a new era of human possibilities. A lot of wild imaginings get pulled into the general stream of popular culture and used without regard to realism.
Remember folks, peeps in the fifties thought that nuclear power was going to mean practically instantaneous flight between cities on opposite sides of the globe.
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