Weird War Tales #92 [Direct]
(October 1980)

DC, 1971 Series
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Volume
10
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-06-17
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date from DC Coming Attractions #44.
This issue has variants:

Doomsday Is Four Horsemen Come Riding... (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Job Number
C-422
Genre
horror-suspense; war

The Ravaging Riders of Ruin! (Table of Contents: 1)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Burkett
Pencils
Tom Sutton
Inks
Tom Sutton
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
J-6280
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Crusade... war in the holy land, as invading Christians seek to destroy the Saracen armies and claim the Holy Land for their own!
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Sir Edward Leister; Ibin Abdul Shazibak; Prester John; Four Riders [War; Plague; Famine; Death]; Shazibak's sister

Indexer Notes

Set during the Crusades. Death does not host but appears in the story.

She's No Angel (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hawkman; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Father Knows Best (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Richie Rich; Grit / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Fight Fire with Fire (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
George Kashdan
Pencils
Frank Redondo
Inks
Frank Redondo
Colors
Bob LeRose
Letters
?

Job Number
J-6461
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Toward the close of World War II, American tanks move in on a remote German stronghold...
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host); Ted Frawley; Harry; Walter

Indexer Notes

Set at a remote German stronghold toward the end of World War II.

Big Cheese (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Dave Manak (signed)
Pencils
Dave Manak (signed)
Inks
Dave Manak (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Dave Manak (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Grr... Grumble...**@!!!... Grr!!!
Genre
humor; war
Characters
Herr Fieldmarshall

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis (review); Paul Levitz (introduction, closing)
Pencils
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Inks
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-584
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Once again, we turn this page over to Bob Rozakis for another round of book reviews...
Characters
Death

Indexer Notes

Instead of letters, this letters page includes reviews by Bob Rozakis of The Future at War (ed. Reginald Bretnor), The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells), The Second War of the Worlds (George H. Smith), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Jack Finney).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Doomsday Is Four Horsemen Come Riding...
    Weird War Tales
  2. 1. The Ravaging Riders of Ruin!
    Weird War Tales
  3. 2. She's No Angel
    Hawkman; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. Father Knows Best
    Richie Rich; Grit
  5. 4. Fight Fire with Fire
    Weird War Tales
  6. 5. Big Cheese
  7. 6. ["Once again, we turn this page over to Bob Rozakis for another round of book reviews..."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Jim Van Dore