Weird War Tales #110 [Direct]

(April 1982)

[Introduction] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Creature Commandos / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Dan Spiegle

Inks

Dan Spiegle

Colors

Jerry Serpe

Letters

Shelly Leferman

Job Number

J-7997

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am Death -- and I was just going through my files on the famed Creature Commandos!

Genre

war; horror-suspense

Characters

Death; Creature Commandos [Griffith; Lt. Matthew Shrieve; Taylor; Velcro] (photos on dossiers)

Roses Are Red -- But Blood Is Redder!, Part Two: A Mirror for Monsters! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Creature Commandos / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Dan Spiegle

Inks

Dan Spiegle

Colors

Jerry Serpe

Letters

Shelly Leferman

Job Number

J-7901

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Mirror, mirror, on the wall-- who's the ugliest freak of all?

Genre

horror-suspense; war

Characters

Creature Commandos [Warren Griffith; Elliot Taylor; Vincent Velcro; Matthew Shrieve; Dr. Medusa (intro, origin, joins)]; Nazis

Reprints

• in Creature Commandos (DC, 2014 series) ([March] 2014)

Keywords

monsters; Nazis

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

Matter over Mind (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

David Allikas

Pencils

Noly Zamora

Inks

Noly Zamora

Colors

Jerry Serpe

Letters

Esphid Mahilum (credited as Esphidy)

Editing

Len Wein

Job Number

J-7197

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On a desolate British mountain range...

Genre

humor; war; horror-suspense; science fiction

Characters

Strombacher; Nazis

Keywords

Nazis

Indexer Notes

Set in the Cambrian Mountains during World War II.

Swamp Thing Is Back! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Swamp Thing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Frogman and the Mermaid (Table of Contents: 5)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Angel Trinidad (credited as Angel Trinidad, Jr.)

Inks

Angel Trinidad (credited as Angel Trinidad, Jr.)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Len Wein

Job Number

J-6807

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The war in the South Pacific slumbered in the velvety night-- until, like twin sinister silvery sharks, two Japanese torpedoes lashed out at an American destroyer with devastating fury!

Genre

horror-suspense; war; science fiction

Characters

Evan Hansen; unnamed mermaid

Keywords

Mermaid; sharks

Indexer Notes

Set in the south Pacific during World War II.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Robin Snyder

Pencils

Joe Kubert (letterhead)

Inks

Joe Kubert (letterhead)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

L-975

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Before we attend to the rhatter of your views on our previous efforts, there is the news of an upcoming project that is sure to pique your interest.

Characters

Death

Indexer Notes

Opinions on Creature Commandos and G.I. Robot by Peter Natoli, Michael McBride, and Jeff Seig. Letters from Gordon Manley, Alan Hamby, Sheila Mason, Chris Warner, TM Maple, Linda Barton, Elizabeth Crawford, and Barbara Mall.

Only the Brave Are Lonely (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Tom Mandrake

Inks

Tom Mandrake

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-6938

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Crusades of the Christians marching from Europe to the Mid-East, to win the Holy Land from the Moslems, begin in A.D. 1096 and last until 1300.

Genre

horror-suspense; war; science fiction

Characters

Richard the Lion-Hearted; Saladin; unnamed flag-bearer (narrator)

Indexer Notes

Set during the Third Crusade around Jerusalem. Credits revealed in the letters page of issue #114.