Combat #18

Dell's Combat #18 brings the desperate defense of Wake Island to vivid life, with cover art by Gene Colan capturing the chaos of "Fighting Marines Against Overwhelming Odds." The cover pulls you right into the fray — a grim Marine thrusts a bayonet forward in the foreground while a machine gunner lays down fire, a cook defiantly taunts the enemy with "Come and get it — first course, meat balls!", and Japanese forces surge forward under a battle-scarred sky filled with aircraft and explosions. Inside, writer Paul S. Newman and artist Sam Glanzman bring their considerable 1965 talents to "Wake Island... Attacked," promising a tense, boots-on-the-ground war story worthy of the cover's raw urgency.