Combat #7

(January-March 1963)

[Map of Java] (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Sam Glanzman

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Sam Glanzman

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The island of Java, in the close vicinity of which the Battle of Sunda Strait was fought, is the most densely populated spot on the face of the globe.

Genre

non-fiction; war

Characters

Residents of Java

Indexer Notes

Inside Front Cover

Action in the Sunda Strait (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

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Sam Glanzman (signed as S.J.G.)

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Sam Glanzman (signed as S.J.G.)

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Genre

war

Characters

Narrator (Australian seaman on H.M.A.S. Perth); Japanese army personnel; Japanese naval personnel; American army personnel; American naval personnel; Australian naval personnel; Admiral Doorman; Len Smith; Bill Davis; Gavin Campbell; Polo Owen; Sam Stenning M.D.; Sailor Smith; Allan McDonough

Synopsis

As part of an incredible series of victories in 1941 and 1942, the Japanese smash a combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea. The only allied surviving ships, U.S.S. Houston and H.M.A.S. Perth, attempt to fight their way southward toward Australia. Both are sunk at the Battle of Sunda Strait.

Reprints

• in Combat (Dell, 1961 series) #33 (October 1971)

Keywords

Indonesia; Japan; navy; World War II

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)

Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Table of Contents: 3)

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Although this page is usually reserved to recall the exploits of famous military leaders... we will use it to describe a diplomatic battle... the consequences of which were more significant than those usually achieved by guns, tanks, boats and bombs.

Genre

non-fiction; biography; history

Keywords

Educational; fact; Japan

Christmas on Cape Gloucester (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Sam Glanzman (signed as S.J.G.)

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Sam Glanzman (signed as S.J.G.)

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The only present in store for the 1st Marine Division the day after Christmas in 1943 was --- war!

Genre

war

Characters

P.F.C. Jeff Smith; Bill; Japanese soldier; Japanese soldier

Synopsis

Jeff Smith dreams of Christmas back home before he and another soldier attack two Japanese soldiers. Both Japanese are killed, and so is Jeff Smith.

Reprints

• in Combat (Dell, 1961 series) #33 (October 1971)

Keywords

Christmas; World War II

Japan (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Sam Glanzman

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Sam Glanzman

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Although it seemed at certain times during the war in the Pacific that Japan's punch could not be stemmed... the fact is that Japan does not have the natural resources to maintain a position as a first rate world power.

Genre

non-fiction; war

Characters

Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Keywords

Japan

Indexer Notes

Inside Back cover feature page

Honor and Glory (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Sam Glanzman

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Sam Glanzman

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Out of the chaos and confusion, the death and destruction of war, man has always attempted to bestow rewards upon the men of battle who have fought well.

Genre

non-fiction; war

Keywords

Educational; fact

Indexer Notes

back cover feature page