Sam Glanzman publishes "A Sailor's Story"

Renowned comic book artist Sam Glanzman has finished work on a new book about his experiences in World War II aboard a Fletcher-class destroyer U.S.S. Stevens entitled “A Sailor’s Story.”  The book is due to be released in April of 2015 and features a painting by Glanzman depicting the Stevens on the cover.

 

Glanzman is best known for his biographical war stories about his service aboard the destroyer which were published in DC Comics and Marvel Comics, but he is also known for the Charlton Comics Fightin' Army feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", a Vietnam-era serial about a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II.

War-comic editor-artist Joe Kubert of DC Comics originally brought Glanzman to DC to work on Our Army At War, Star Spangled War Stories, and Weird War Tales.  However, his work on G.I. Combat, particularly the stories he illustrated for the feature "Haunted Tank,” earned him the lvoe and respect of generations of comic book readers.  It was also at DC that Glanzman began his series of biographical war stories about his service aboard the U.S.S. Stevens which began in Our Army at War #218 (April 1970).

World War II era Fletcher-class destroyer.

“A Sailor’s Story” is available for pre-order from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Sailors-Story-Dover-Graphic-Novels/dp/0486798127.