(March-April 1980)

DC, 1979 Series
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Volume
2
Price
1.00 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1979-12-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893210204
Editing
Murray Boltinoff (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #175. April 1980 on cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Black Eagle; Guerrilla War Starring Force 3; The Viking Commando / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
Todd Klein

Job Number
B-4281
Genre
war
Keywords
World War II

Indexer Notes

Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Execution on Demand (Table of Contents: 1)

The Viking Commando / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
George Evans
Inks
George Evans
Colors
Bob LeRose (credited as Le Rose)
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (credited as Gaspar)

Job Number
B-4236
First Line of Dialogue or Text
One moment lustily facing battle and death with gleaming ax and knife in his brawling 12th century world...
Genre
war
Characters
Viking Commando; Major Graham; Maggie Heywood; Fey
Reprints
Keywords
World War II

Indexer Notes

Divided in three parts. Part One: "One Still Lives!"; Part Two: "Checkpoint Death!"; Part Three: "The Bleeding Battalion".

The Sixty-Second Vet (Table of Contents: 2)

Black Eagle / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Dick Ayers
Inks
Romeo Tanghal
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (credited as Gaspar)

Job Number
B-4241
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I finally got my first letter in months from my kid brother Lonny...
Genre
war
Characters
Black Eagle [Cassius Bannister]; Lonny Bannister; Boxer
Reprints
Keywords
World War II

Batman and Professor Plutonium (Table of Contents: 3)

Batman; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Batman has received a tip that a criminal called Professor Plutonium will strike at midnight, from Gotham Harbor.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Professor Plutonium

Indexer Notes

on the page immediately following page 6 of the previous story sequence.

The Private War of Pvt. Wylie (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Murray Boltinoff (credited as M. B.)
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
It had become axiomatic in war, up front, on the line, the closer you were to the enemy...
Genre
war
Characters
Pvt. James Wyllie; Maj. Gen. Alan W. Jones

Road to Sunchon (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Archie Goodwin
Pencils
Ernie Patricio (signed)
Inks
Ernie Patricio (signed)
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
?

Job Number
L-101
First Line of Dialogue or Text
1950: The Korean "police action" seemed almost over.
Genre
war
Characters
Lew Briggs; Lt. Kim Pak-Lao
Reprints
Keywords
Korean War

The One-Minute War! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
David Allikas
Pencils
Rene Samson (credited as Rene H. Samson)
Inks
Rene Samson (credited as Rene H. Samson)
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Esphid Mahilum

Job Number
B-4185
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Bulldozing its way from the rhine to the Baltic coast, Montgomery's 21st Army Group seized the bomb-blasted, blackened city of Hamburg.
Genre
war
Characters
Wilma; Bernd; Freidhelm; Karl

Indexer Notes

World War II

Death Comes in Three's! (Table of Contents: 7)

Guerrilla War Starring Force 3 / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Jerry Grandenetti
Inks
Jerry Grandenetti
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (credited as Gaspar)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
At military intelligence H.Q. in wartime London, Force 3 receives its newest deadly assignment...
Genre
war
Characters
Force 3 [Dickson; Leonidas; Fredric]; Adolf Hitler; Nazi Force 3
Keywords
World War II
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Black Eagle; Guerrilla War Starring Force 3; The Viking Commando
  2. 1. Execution on Demand
    The Viking Commando
  3. 2. The Sixty-Second Vet
    Black Eagle
  4. 3. Batman and Professor Plutonium
    Batman; Hostess Twinkies
  5. 4. The Private War of Pvt. Wylie
  6. 5. Road to Sunchon
  7. 6. The One-Minute War!
  8. 7. Death Comes in Three's!
    Guerrilla War Starring Force 3
This issue was modified by, among others
  • CTGarry
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Jim Stangas
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore