Weird War Tales #106 [Direct]
(December 1981)

DC, 1971 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
11
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-08-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike W. Barr (editor); Robin Snyder (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration. Snyder credits in letters page.
This issue has variants:

The Dame... The Dinosaur... or Death! (Table of Contents)

The War That Time Forgot / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
C-702
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A fearsome choice to be made in:
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Keywords
dinosaurs
Cover Thumbnail for Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #106 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Weird War Tales (1971 series) #106 [Newsstand]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

The Dame or the Dinosaur (Table of Contents: 1)

The War That Time Forgot / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher (credited)
Pencils
Joe Staton (credited)
Inks
Jerry Ordway (credited)
Colors
Bob LeRose (credited as Bob Le Rose)
Letters
John Costanza (credited as Costanza)
Editing
Len Wein (credited)
Job Number
J-7038
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hey, guys! Look! A beautiful doll is wavin' to us to follow her inside that cave!
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host); Tony; unnamed mermaid
Keywords
dinosaurs

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II on an island in the south Pacific.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Robin Snyder (signed as RS)
Pencils
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Inks
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-871
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Excellent! Kanigher never stops amazing me.
Characters
Death

Indexer Notes

Letters from Joey Rivas, Cathy Rodgers, Steven Labinski, George Zouridis, Harlan York, and Tom Smith.

Old Soldiers Always Die! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script
Mike W. Barr (credited)
Pencils
E. R. Cruz (credited)
Inks
E. R. Cruz (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Len Wein (credited)
Job Number
J-6770
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I am Death... and though each war has its survivors, no one evades my skeletal grasp for long--
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host); Franz Schnelling; Marta; Herr Schnelling; Erich Schnelling; Adolf Hitler; Elisse Schnelling

Indexer Notes

Set in Berlin on 2 August 1934.

Ambushed by the Dead (Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher (credited)
Pencils
M. D. Bright (credited as Mark D. Bright)
Inks
Gerry Talaoc (credited as G. Talaoc)
Colors
Bob LeRose (credited as Bob Le Rose)
Letters
Milt Snapinn (credited)
Editing
Len Wein (credited)
Job Number
J-7021
First Line of Dialogue or Text
In the bitter cold in the Hurtegen Forest, branches cracked and trees split-- as the patrol sent out by Abel Company was felled by an ambush!
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Nazis
Keywords
Nazis

Indexer Notes

Set in the Hurtegen Forest during World War II.

Return Engagement (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script
George Kashdan (credited)
Pencils
Steve Ditko (credited)
Inks
Steve Ditko (credited)
Colors
Bob LeRose (credited as Bob Le Rose)
Letters
Pierre Bernard Jr. (credited)
Job Number
J-7519
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Professional soldiers will seek any excuse to start a war!
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death (host); Duncan MacTavish; Alec Campbell; Bruce MacTavish; unnamed witches; Horace Campbell
Reprints
Keywords
demons; witches

Indexer Notes

Set in Scotland.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Dame... The Dinosaur... or Death!
    The War That Time Forgot
  2. 1. The Dame or the Dinosaur
    The War That Time Forgot
  3. 2. ["Excellent! Kanigher never stops amazing me."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  4. 3. Old Soldiers Always Die!
    Weird War Tales
  5. 4. Ambushed by the Dead
    Weird War Tales
  6. 5. Return Engagement
    Weird War Tales
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License 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.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.