Combat #38

Dell's long-running war anthology delivers another gritty Pacific Theater chapter with this January 1973 issue, promising stories of fire fights and Marines hitting Guadalcanal. The cover — painted in a scorching orange palette — places a helmeted Marine gunner front and center, his machine gun blazing as warplanes streak and burn overhead against a smoky tropical sky, with soldiers pressing forward through the palm-lined jungle behind him. Sam Glanzman's artwork, both penciled and inked by him, brings a raw, immersive energy to the chaos of battle that fans of serious war comics will find hard to put down.