(April 1975)

DC, 1971 Series
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Volume:
5
Price:
0.50 USD
Pages:
64
Indicia frequency:
monthly
Indicia Publisher:
National Periodical Publications, Inc.
Brand:
DC [bullet]
Barcode:
?
Editing:
Joe Orlando; Paul Levitz (assistant)
Color:
Color
Dimensions:
Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:
Newsprint
Binding:
Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:
Was Ongoing Series

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[The Pool...] (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Job Number:
J-3877

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (inset)

Escape (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Robert Kanigher
Pencils:
Mike Sekowsky
Inks:
Bill Draut
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3050

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during the fighting for Bellefon in Normandy during World War II.


The Moon Is the Murderer (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bob Kanigher
Pencils:
Frank Thorne (signed)
Inks:
Frank Thorne (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3895?

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #2 (November-December 1971)

Indexer Notes

Writing credit derived from The Comic Reader #114.


The 13th Man (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Oleck
Pencils:
Ruben Yandoc
Inks:
Ruben Yandoc
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3789

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set on the destoyer Monahan, off the Scottish Coast, in April 144, during World War II.


The Pool... (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Len Wein; Marv Wolfman
Pencils:
Russ Heath
Inks:
Russ Heath
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3892

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #3 (January-February 1972)

Indexer Notes

Set 12,000 years ago and in the Sahara Desert in 1943.


Monsieur Gravedigger (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jerry DeFuccio (signed)
Pencils:
Reed Crandall (signed)
Inks:
Reed Crandall (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3893

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #2 (November-December 1971)

Indexer Notes

Set in Fort Fleur-De-Lis in the Sahara Desert.


Bloody Halloween (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
George Kashdan
Pencils:
E. R. Cruz
Inks:
E. R. Cruz
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3552?

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set on 31 October in Transylvania.


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
J-3884

Indexer Notes

Includes a letter from Robert Greenberger (Jericho, New York). Includes a short article after the letters, "The Story Behind the Story of Weird War Tales," which explains that Weird War Tales was originally not going to be a series of its own but just two issues of Super DC Giant edited by Joe Kubert. When Super DC Giant was cancelled, Weird War Tales was put on the schedule as a regular bi-monthly. This article also laments the lack of reader comment on the series, also noted in the letters pages of a few prior issues.


["God, look at it!"] (Table of Contents)

The Day After Doomsday... / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Len Wein
Pencils:
Jack Sparling
Inks:
Jack Sparling
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3896

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction; war
Reprints:

Colonel Clown Isn't Laughing Anymore! (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Arnold Drake
Pencils:
Frank Robbins
Inks:
Frank Robbins
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3089?

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.


Death-Gram (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Joe Kubert
Pencils:
Joe Kubert
Inks:
Joe Kubert
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3894

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #2 (November-December 1971)

Indexer Notes

Original Title: Behind the Cover.


The Deadly Seeds (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
George Kashdan
Pencils:
Alex Nino
Inks:
Alex Nino
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
J-3643

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.


Weird War Maze (Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bob Rozakis
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
P-42

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense; war

Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 0. [The Pool...]
    Weird War Tales
  2. 1. Escape
    Weird War Tales
  3. 2. The Moon Is the Murderer
    Weird War Tales
  4. 3. The 13th Man
    Weird War Tales
  5. 4. The Pool...
    Weird War Tales
  6. 5. Monsieur Gravedigger
    Weird War Tales
  7. 6. Bloody Halloween
    Weird War Tales
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  9. 8. ["God, look at it!"]
    The Day After Doomsday...
  10. 9. Colonel Clown Isn't Laughing Anymore!
    Weird War Tales
  11. 10. Death-Gram
    Weird War Tales
  12. 11. The Deadly Seeds
    Weird War Tales
  13. 12. Weird War Maze
    Weird War Tales
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • John Censullo
  • Matthew Head
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Gene Reed
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Ramon Schenk