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Samuel Joseph Glanzman (December 5, 1924 – July 12, 2017) was an American and memoirist. Glanzman is best known for his series Hercules, about the ; his autobiographical war stories about his service aboard the for and ; and the Charlton Comics Fightin' Army feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", a -era serial about a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II.


Biography

Early life and career
Glanzman was born on December 5, 1924, in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Florence and Gustave Glanzman. His father was Jewish and his mother Catholic.
(2025). 9780486801582, Dover Publications.
His brothers were comic-book artists D.C. (Davis Charles) Glanzman and , the latter of whom went on to become a painter.

Glanzman ended his formal education after grade school.Glanzman, Comic Book Artist, p. 93 He entered the comics industry in late 1939, during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books, at Funnies, Inc., one of the early "" that supplied comics to publishers then entering the fledgling medium. There, for Centaur Publications, he wrote two-page text stories with incidental art for Amazing-Man Comics. Later, for , he created in the anthology Spitfire Comics #1 (August 1941), writing and drawing the feature for at least two issues. He also contributed to Harvey's All-New Short Story Comics (where he published his first recorded war story); Champ Comics (stories about the superhero Human Meteor); and the radio program tie-in series through 1943.

He served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II, stationed on the destroyer , and was discharged in 1946.Glanzman, Comic Book Artist, p. 90 Eschewing work in comics ("I was getting $7.50 a page for Fly-Man, , , story, and ... I figured, 'Hell, that's not much money.'"), he began a peripatetic career doing manual labor in cabinet shops, lumber mills, and boat yards. After marrying in the 1950s, he worked at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, New York, installing machine guns on military jets. During this time, he lived in Rockaway, Queens, and in the Long Island towns of Valley Stream and Massapequa Park.

Seeking to return to art, Glanzman did some work for the series Heroic Comics and New Heroic Comics in 1950, and found better-paying assignments doing children's book illustration. He may have done uncredited work for his brother Lew on a hardcover book series for children about aircraft. Work was not steady, however, and Glanzman returned to Republic Aviation.


Charlton Comics
In 1958, Glanzman began working with , the executive editor of Charlton Comics, a low-paying publishing company. He specialized in stories for the war titles Attack, Battlefield Action, Fightin' Air Force, Fightin' Marines, Submarine Attack, U.S. Air Force Comics, and War at Sea, producing a large amount of authentically detailed work. In mid-1961 he switched to . where he worked on the anthology Combat, drew the movie adaptation Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the similar, though unrelated, four-issue Voyage to the Deep, and a range of titles from lost-world adventure ( Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle) to heartwarming animal drama ( Lad: A Dog). He occasionally still moonlighted for Charlton, using the initials "SJG" for his work on the 1962 Marco Polo movie adaptation and elsewhere.

Beginning mid-1964, Glanzman moved regularly between Charlton and Dell assignments, almost exclusively on war stories, but also on a Charlton Tarzan series. Although some sources credit him for co-creating the Charlton detective character , he stated in a 2009 interview that "The only thing I created was the "U.S.S. Stevens", "Attu" and A Sailor's Story."

During the 1960s Glanzman and writer Gill created the Charlton mythological-adventure series Hercules: Adventures of the Man-God, which would run 13 issues (Oct. 1967 - Sept. 1969), and showcased Glanzman's experimental side, where he might float -bordered panels within action tableaux filled with Hieronymous Boschian nightmares.Glanzman, Comic Book Artist, illustration p. 91

Also during this time he co-created, with writer , "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz",Glanzman, Comic Book Artist, pp. 91–92 a departure from most other World War II features of this time, with a conflicted American soldier of German heritage caught between loyalties. During combat in the , U.S. Army captain Schultz is falsely accused and convicted of murder; he escapes and blends into the German Army while seeking a way to clear his name and retain his Allied allegiance. The feature, reprinted as late as 1999, The Lonely War Of Willy Schultz #1–4 (May–Nov. 1999), published by Avalon Communications / America's Comics Group was serialized in Charlton's Fightin' Army #76–80, 82–92 (Oct. 1967 – July 1968 and Nov. 1968 – July 1970).

Glanzman freelanced for magazine in the 1960s as well.


DC Comics
editor-artist of industry giant brought Glanzman to work on Our Army at War, Star Spangled War Stories, Weird War Tales, and other combat titles including G.I. Combat, where for years he illustrated the feature "". At DC, Glanzman began his series of autobiographical war stories about his service aboard the U.S.S. Stevens in Our Army at War #218 (April 1970).
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Glanzman would also occasionally draw stories for DC's anthologies. He was one of the contributors to the debut issues of GhostsMcAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 147 and Blitzkrieg.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 171: "In February 1976, editor and cover artist Joe Kubert helmed Blitzkrieg #1, a unique anthology about World War II as seen through the eyes of the enemy. The first issue featured stories by writer Robert Kanigher, artist Ric Estrada, and storyteller Sam Glanzman." By late 1979, with most of DC's war titles either canceled or converted to character series with established teams, Glanzman remained solely on G.I. Combat and began freelancing again for Charlton. Following his last "Haunted Tank" story, in G.I. Combat #288 (March 1987), Glanzman drew two more stories for DC a year later, in Sgt. Rock #420–421 (Feb.–April 1988). He would return to ink penciler on the : Two Gun Mojo (Sept.–Dec. 1993), Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such (March–July 1995), and Jonah Hex: Shadows West (Feb.–April 1999) all written by Joe R. Lansdale.


Later career
Glanzman also contributed a handful of war stories to from 1986–1989, in the black-and-white adventure magazine , the Marine Corps series Semper Fi, an issue of The 'Nam, and most notably A Sailor's Story / Marvel Graphic Novel #30 (March 1987), a 60-page true account, which he both wrote and drew, of his time on USS Stevens during World War II. Unusually for Marvel's graphic novel line, it was released in hardcover rather than as a trade paperback. A trade paperback edition followed, together with a sequel, A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons, which continued the story up to the end of the war.

Other work in the 1990s included inking some issues of for and for , and writing and drawing a serialized feature in Flashback Comics' Fantastic Worlds #1. His later work includes stories in two anthologies: writing and drawing the 10-page, true-life story "On the Job: Cooks Tour," in the graphic-story trade paperback Streetwise (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2000, ), and the donated, four-page "There Were Tears in Her Eyes," in the squarebound benefit comic (2002).

From 1999–2001, the Avalon Communications imprint America's Comic Group / ACG (not to be confused with American Comics Group / AGC) reprinted large amounts of Glanzman's Charlton Comics work in a number of mostly one-shot titles, including Hercules, Flyboys, Nam Tales, Star Combat Tales, Total War, and ACG Comics Presents Fire and Steel.

In 2003, Glanzman began working on , writing and drawing the 19th-century adventure Apple Jack, and reteaming with his "Willy Schultz" writer, , on the Roman series The Eagle.. Original site. In 2012 and 2013, new "U.S.S. Stevens" stories by Glanzman appeared in the Joe Kubert Presents six-issue anthology limited series. In 2015, Glanzman's "U.S.S. Stevens" stories and the A Sailor's Story graphic novels were collected by Dover Publications.

Glanzman died on July 12, 2017, in Maryland, New York, under hospice care after falling and undergoing surgery.


Awards
Sam Glanzman received the in 1999 and posthumously received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing in 2023.


Bibliography
Glanzman's U.S.S. Stevens stories for appear in:
  • Our Army at War #220, 223, 225, 227, 230–232, 235 238, 240–242, 244–245, 247–248, 256–259, 261–262, 265–267, 275, 281–282, 284, 293, 298 (1970–1976)
  • Our Fighting Forces 128, 132, 134, 136, 138–139, 140–141, 143 (1970–1972)
  • Weird War Tales #4 (1972)
  • G.I. Combat #152 (1972)
  • Star Spangled War Stories #167, 171, 174 (1973)
  • Sgt. Rock #304, 308 (1977)
  • Sgt. Rock Special #1 (1992)
  • Joe Kubert Presents #1–6 (2012–2013)


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