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Samuel Joseph Glanzman was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1924. He dropped out of high school and got a job at Centaur Publications in Manhattan, where he worked on Amazing-Man comics. In 1941, at the age of 16, he created the superhero Fly-Man for Harvey Comics, but the superhero was not a success. During World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and served in the Pacific on the destroyer Stevens. After he left the Navy, he worked in lumber mills, cabinet shops, and boatyards before assembling .50-caliber guns on fighter jets for Republic Aviation.

In the 1950s, he began writing and illustrating again and worked for various comic book companies. He built his reputation for wartime storytelling in comic books like Combat and graphic novels like A Sailor's Story and U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories. He also illustrated Tarzan and Hercules comics, as well a dinosaur series called Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle. He later wrote and illustrated graphic novels about a time-traveling cave man named Attu. He died on July 12, 2017 at the age of 92.

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