Weird War Tales
#30
(October 1974)
DC,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-07-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #108.
[no title indexed]
Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as
LD [overlapping]) - Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Colors
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3682
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war; science fiction
The Elements of Death!
Weird War Tales / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- David Michelinie
- Pencils
- Gerry Talaoc (signed)
- Inks
- Gerry Talaoc (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3326
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war; science fiction
- Characters
- Death (host)
- Reprints
-
in Brûlant (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #16 (mai 1981) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Set in November 1942 in Western Poland near Poznow.
[no title indexed]
The Day after Doomsday / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Len Wein (credited)
- Pencils
- Bill Draut (credited)
- Inks
- Bill Draut (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- J-3562
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As the last man on earth sat alone in a room, there was a knock on the door...
- Genre
- science fiction; war
- Synopsis
- Long after the nuclear war has ended, a man finally receives his draft notice.
- Reprints
- in Brûlant (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #16 (mai 1981)
-
in Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights (DC, 2014 series) ([August] 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Set sometime in the future.
Based on the quote from science fiction author Frederic Brown, “The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
Dream of Death
Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-3593
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war; science fiction
- Characters
- Death (host)
- Reprints
- in Brûlant (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #16 (mai 1981) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Set during World War I.
Homecoming
Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Frank Redondo (credited as Q. Redondo)
- Inks
- Frank Redondo (credited as Q. Redondo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3387
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war; science fiction
- Characters
- Death (host)
- Reprints
- in Brûlant (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #15 (février 1981) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Original indexer credits Quico Redondo. Q. Redondo is credited in the issue. According to Jerry Bails' Who's Who, Quico Redondo is an alias of Frank Redondo. Story set during the Vietnam War.
[no title indexed]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-3665
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Weird War Tales -
1.
The Elements of Death!
Weird War Tales -
2.
["As the last man on earth sat alone in a room, there was a knock on the door..."]
The Day after Doomsday -
3.
Dream of Death
Weird War Tales -
4.
Homecoming
Weird War Tales -
5.
[no title indexed]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Paul Lefebvre
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.