Sam Glanzman was fearless. He was a working artist right up until his passing a few years ago, bringing out new material for an audience developed over long decades of reliable service. I fell in love with the art of Sam Glanzman when I picked up my fist issue of Hercules from Charlton comics. I knew myths from school, but this was a vibrant modern retelling which evoked the classic design found on ancient pottery but still was not afraid to bring in modern tropes right alongside. Glanzman was an artist who specialized in war stories and the verisimilitude he brought to his pages was gleaned from his own time in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. Stevens. He chronicled tales of that ship persistently through his career, in the back issues of DC war comics and in a few graphic novels released by Marvel . All of that material has been collected and published by Dover Books. Glanzman also is well remembered by many fans for his Kona stories for Dell comics, a savage hero on a weird island which seemed stranded in time. Glanzman also drew westerns, and I particularly enjoyed his work on DC's hideous hero Jonah Hex, produced in tandem with writer Joe Lansdale. I recently wrote an small essay for a Glanzman reprint volume of his war stories for Dell, but haven't seen or heard anything of it in months. Hopefully it will come out. Sam deserves it and I'd love to see it.
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