Combat #114 reveals that, at the time of the ghost's arrival, Jeb is a sergeant in the United States Army who commands a Stuart tank fighting with the Allies in the North African Campaign.

The original crew consists of Jeb as tank commander; Arch Asher, loader; Rick Rawlins, gunner; and Slim Stryker, driver.

General Stuart's ghost does not initially care for his assignment, but is impressed with the fighting spirit of Jeb and his crew.

His crew thinks he is crazy, but continue to follow his leadership as he has solid tactical expertise (brought about through his consultations with the General, who usually gives him cryptic hints of future events) and rarely fails in his missions.

[6] Following a disastrous mission engineered to rescue the son of their commanding officer, General Norton, from a German administrated POW camp (based on the Task Force Baum incident), the crew of the Haunted Tank find themselves stranded behind enemy lines and spend several issues fighting their way back to the front.

[7] Days later, Arch dies saving them from an exploding suicidal German tank[8] and Gus takes his place in the crew.

[11] Craig's son Eddie also joins the crew a few issues later,[12] taking over the loader's position and allowing Gus to act as a second gunner.

[13] Secret Origins #14 (1987), featuring the Suicide Squad, reveals that Jeb Stuart is promoted to general after the war, but no mention is made of what happened to the others.

The story also revealed that Stuart becomes the godfather of Richard Rodgers Flag, whose father led the World War II version of the Squad.

[18] The Haunted Tank and its original crew also appear in the 1999 supernatural "Day of Judgment" crossover in Anarky.

The two assist the superhero group The Power Company in defeating an inter-dimensional menace that had been planning to conquer the earth with murder, mayhem and corporate mergers.

During the mission, Jen is overcome by severe doubts as she is unsure if her grandfather's tactical advice is real or some sort of hallucination.

A "DC Showcase" black and white trade paperback collection Haunted Tank Volume One, reprinting stories from between 1961 and 1965, was published in 2006.

In the backup story "Snapshot: Remembrance" in the retrospective miniseries DC Universe: Legacies #4, set during a reunion on July 4, 1976, Jeb Stuart is teaching American History at Calvin College (where the Golden Age Atom studied) and says he has not spoken to the General in years.

[24] The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue miniseries from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint.