Combat #24

Dell's Combat War-Stories brings the ferocious naval clash at Leyte Gulf to vivid life on this April 1967 cover by Sam Glanzman. The cover plunges you right into the thick of it — destroyer #479 lists amid explosions and churning water, sailors scrambling across its tilting deck while enemy aircraft burst apart overhead and a Japanese rising-sun flag waves through the smoke-filled chaos. With the cover's own bold declaration that "Victory or Defeat Hangs in the Balance," this is a gripping showcase of Glanzman's dynamic draftsmanship and his feel for the raw intensity of Pacific warfare.