Combat #8

Dell's Combat War-Stories series brings the grim intensity of World War II to vivid life in this 1963 issue, its cover dominated by a steely-eyed GI in a battle-scarred helmet looming large against a blood-red sky, while infantrymen press forward through a wintry, shell-torn landscape below. The cover teases "the raging battle for Monte Cassino… against unseen enemy troops," promising the kind of tense, grounded warfare storytelling that made this series a standout among early-'60s war comics. Writer Paul S. Newman and artist/inker Sam Glanzman were a reliable team for bringing authenticity and human stakes to tales like the interior story, "Fighting Back in New Guinea.