Weird War Tales #108 [Direct]
(February 1982)

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Volume
12
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-10-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike W. Barr (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

[In the Kingdom of the Damned] (Table of Contents)

The Creature Commandos; The G.I. Robot / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Staton (signed); Pat Broderick (inset)
Inks
Bruce Patterson (signed); John Beatty (inset)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino; Todd Klein (G.I. Combat logo design)

Job Number
C-807
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The return of the G.I. Robot!
Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction; war
Characters
Creature Commandos [Griffith; Velcro; Taylor]; Adolf Hitler; G.I. Robot [J.A.K.E 1] (inset)
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Inset from "Robots Don't Have Hearts!" story, page 2, 7th panel by Broderick & Beatty.

[Introduction] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Creature Commandos; The G.I. Robot / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr ?
Pencils
Don Newton (signed)
Inks
Rodin Rodriguez (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
J-7894
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Of all the billions of combatants who have spilled their fellows' blood, none are stranger than these...
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Death; Creature Commandos [Griffith; Taylor; Velcro] (in a picture); G.I. Robot [J.A.K.E. 1] (in a picture)

Robots Don't Have Hearts! (Table of Contents: 2)

The G.I. Robot / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Pat Broderick
Inks
John Beatty
Colors
Bob LeRose
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Editing
Mike W. Barr

Job Number
J-7514
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I thought the war would be over before mail found this godforsaken boondock in the middle of the Pacific -- an' dropped off my Betty Grable pinup!
Genre
science fiction; war
Characters
G.I. Robot [J.A.K.E. 1]; Sgt. Coker; Pia; Colonel Hideki

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II in the Pacific Theater.

Marathon Madman (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Jasper Pepperdyne, Defender of Time and Space (Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr (writer); Len Wein (co-plotter)
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
José Luis García-López
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Len Wein

Job Number
J-7118
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Space: For many, the final frontier...
Genre
science fiction; war
Characters
Jason Pepperdyne; Captain Hartman; Burke; Mrs. Dolly Pepperdyne (flashback)
Keywords
aliens

Indexer Notes

Originally intended for the cancelled Mystery in Space #118. Set sometime in the future after the year 2232.

In the Kingdom of the Damned (Table of Contents: 5)

The Creature Commandos / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
J. M. DeMatteis
Pencils
Bob Hall
Inks
John Celardo
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Editing
Len Wein

Job Number
J-7015
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Thunder clouds butt heads in the afternoon sky over London, reminding a war-weary populace that, when maddened, nature can be a far more formidable foe than any lunatic German dictator...
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
Creature Commandos [Velcro; Taylor; Griffith; Lt. Matthew Shrieve]; Nazis; Doctor Renee Frederique [also as Marie]
Reprints
Keywords
monsters; Nazis

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [In the Kingdom of the Damned]
    The Creature Commandos; The G.I. Robot
  2. 1. [Introduction]
    The Creature Commandos; The G.I. Robot
  3. 2. Robots Don't Have Hearts!
    The G.I. Robot
  4. 3. Marathon Madman
    The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes
  5. 4. Jasper Pepperdyne, Defender of Time and Space
    Weird War Tales
  6. 5. In the Kingdom of the Damned
    The Creature Commandos
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Rodrigo Baeza
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Jim Van Dore