Combat #19

Dell's Combat #19 brings Sam Glanzman's gritty linework to a tense, close-quarters raid scene straight from the Saint-Nazaire headline splashed across the cover. Allied commandos storm a Nazi communications post in a blur of gunfire — one soldier shouting "Take that, you Nazi rats!!" as his weapon blazes with a resounding "BRATATAT!" — while a blond German officer reels from a rifle-butt blow and a second enemy scrambles to react. Writer Paul S. Newman and artist Sam Glanzman made this March 1966 Dell war title a reliable home for hard-hitting WWII action, and this cover delivers exactly that atmosphere in a single charged image.