(April 1980)

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Volume
10
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-01-08
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893071704
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #176.
This issue has variants:

[Into Thin Air] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Todd Klein

Job Number
C-293
Genre
war

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Weird War Tales / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Inks
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
J-6309
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What is it that makes men go into battle?
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death

Freed from the Depths (Table of Contents: 2)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Kelley
Pencils
Ruben Yandoc
Inks
Ruben Yandoc
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
?

Job Number
J-5466
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host)
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Set in the Berin Sea during World War II.

An Arrow in Time (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

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

Job Number
L-465

Indexer Notes

Instead of letters, Bob Rozakis reviews The Third World War (General Sir John Hackett), On the Beach (Nevil Shute), An Exchange of Eagles (Owen Sela), and The Gasp (Romain Gary). In his reviews Rozakis mentions a book reccomended by reader Alan Giroux, who would become an Eisner-award winning comic book retailer.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
Arthur Gutowitz
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Date of Filing: October 1, 1979. Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 239,185.

Into Thin Air (Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Jay Zilber
Pencils
Jack Sparling (credited as Sparling)
Inks
Joe Giella (credited as Giella)
Colors
Bob LeRose
Letters
Shelly Leferman

Job Number
J-5972
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

DC Puzzle / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.5 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Into Thin Air]
    Weird War Tales
  2. 1. ["What is it that makes men go into battle?"]
    Weird War Tales
  3. 2. Freed from the Depths
    Weird War Tales
  4. 3. An Arrow in Time
    Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  6. 5. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
  7. 6. Into Thin Air
    Weird War Tales
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    DC Puzzle
  9. 8. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Enrico Menin
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore