Weird War Tales
#70
(December 1978)
DC,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 8
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-09-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893071712
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #160.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Blood Boat
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Job Number
- C-845
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-4865
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Men fear the Sargasso Sea, and speak of being lost there forever... but they know not what they say!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Characters
- Death
The Blood Boat!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-5458?
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Characters
- Death (host)
- Keywords
- Pacific; World War II
Indexer Notes
Set in the Pacific Ocean in August 1944 during World War II.
Death's Double Agent
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Mike W. Barr
- Pencils
- Jerry Bingham
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited as J. Serpe)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-5463?
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Characters
- Death (host)
Indexer Notes
Set in 1943 in France during World War II.
The Lonely Road to Life
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Alex Niño (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Niño (signed)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited as J. Serpe)
- Letters
- Erik Santos (credited as E. Santos)
- Job Number
- J-3788?
- Genre
- science fiction; war
- Characters
- Death (host)
Indexer Notes
Set on another planet sometime in the future.
[no title indexed]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-158
Indexer Notes
Explains that as of next issue "the legendary WEIRD WAR TALES inventory is exhausted," so all new material will appear.
Volume 78 Issue 37 - Week of September 11, 1978
Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.8 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Bob Rozakis
- Characters
- Sgt. Rock; Sgt. Stryker; Batman; Joker
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Blood Boat
-
1.
["Men fear the Sargasso Sea, and speak of being lost there forever... but they know not what they say!"]
-
2.
The Blood Boat!
-
3.
Death's Double Agent
-
4.
The Lonely Road to Life
-
5.
[no title indexed]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales -
6.
Volume 78 Issue 37 - Week of September 11, 1978
Daily Planet -
7.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Paul Lefebvre
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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