Warlord
#44
[Direct]
(April 1981)
DC,
1976 Series
- Volume
- 6
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
The Gamble
Warlord / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Grell (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Grell (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-486
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Warlord [Travis Morgan]; Shakira
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[no title indexed]
advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now your comfortable old sneakers can last forever!
The Gamble
Warlord / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-7155
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Warlord [Travis Morgan]; Jennifer Morgan; Faaldren; Aton; Tevalco El Cint; Shakira
- Reprints
-
in Démon (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Reintroduction of Morgan's daughter, Jennifer.
Mike Grell, who was said to dislike Vince Colletta's inks over his pencils, appears to have taken out his frustration on the gambler in this story, whose name is an anagram for Vince Colletta. (Note suggested by Michael Slark via the GCD Error Tracker.)
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now the number yum taste is even yummier.
Indexer Notes
Bubble Yum Bubble Gum.
After page 4 of The Gamble.
[The Superman Club]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Before page 5 of The Gamble.
Old Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman; Amenhotep; The Borrower
- Synopsis
- Wonder Woman catches the Borrower 'borrowing' from tourists in an Egyptian tomb.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies in comic strip format.
Between pages 8 and 9 of The Gamble.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- Todd Klein
- Pencils
- Todd Klein (layout); Dick Giordano
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- $ave money: subscribe now!
- Characters
- Superman; Wonder Woman; Batman; Robin; Captain Marvel; Flash; Aquaman; Warlord [Travis Morgan]; Jonah Hex
Indexer Notes
Between pages 13 and 14 of The Gamble. Credits from Klein.
Games of Power, Games of Chance
OMAC / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Dan Mishkin; Gary Cohn
- Pencils
- Greg LaRocque
- Inks
- Vince Colletta
- Colors
- Phil Rachelson
- Letters
- Al Babich
- Job Number
- J-7070
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Wiley Quixote; OMAC; Werner Verner; Turner Verner; Vernon Verner; Mariela; Mextaxa; Brother Eye
- Synopsis
- OMAC goes to the carnival.
[no title indexed]
Chain Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-705
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am a 25 year old youth worker who has just completed his Masters degree in Communications.
Indexer Notes
Letters from Craig A. Loewen, Gregg Stamey Jr., and Neil Ahlquist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Gamble
Warlord -
1.
["Now your comfortable old sneakers can last forever!"]
-
2.
["Are you too short?"]
-
3.
The Gamble
Warlord -
4.
["Now the number yum taste is even yummier."]
-
5.
[Grit]
-
6.
[The Superman Club]
-
7.
Old Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
8.
["$ave money: subscribe now!"]
-
9.
[Sea-Monkeys]
-
10.
Games of Power, Games of Chance
OMAC -
11.
[Write Right Now!]
-
12.
["I am a 25 year old youth worker who has just completed his Masters degree in Communications."]
Chain Mail -
13.
[Prizes or Cash]
-
14.
[Truckin']
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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