At the Max Brooks panel at San Diego Comic Con, he was asked what other comics he would recommend. He had one choice. The reissue of A Sailor's Story by Sam Glanzman from Dover Books. Brooks talked about how inspiring it was when he first read it as a boy and saw a direct line from that book to his other work, especially Harlem Hellfighters.

Well, here is a look at Dover Books' follow-up collection, USS Stevens, by Sam Glanzman, collecting almost 70 stores, the original 4 and 5 pagers in the 70s DC war comics edited by Joe Kubert, the three 10 pagers in Marvel's Savage Tales Volume 2 edited by Larry Hama, and the most recent USS Stevens stories Glanzman did for Joe Kubert Presents.

Because the stories are being reprinted from comics made in the 70s, they need some restoration work. Therefore, Dover Books hired Michael Kelleher, the gentleman responsible for restoring Glanzman's full color art on The Unauthorized Tarzan that Dark Horse published in 2013, to restore all the USS Stevens stories.

So here, as a treat for Glanzman fans and of war comics in general, here's a fully restored 5 page USS Stevens story, entitled "King of the Hill" and originally published in DC's Star Spangled War Stories #174, October 1973, restored by Kelleher. The book will see publication in March 2016.

USS STEVENS: The Collected Stories by Sam Glanzman. Foreword by Ivan Brandon (VIKING, MEN OF WAR, 24SEVEN). Introduction by Jon B. Cooke (COMIC BOOK ARTIST, SWAMPMEN). Afterword by Allan Asherman (Joe Kubert's Assistant Editor on many of the 70s war comics that the USS STEVENS stories appeared in). Full Color. 300+ Pages. $29.95.