Unknown Soldier #263 [Direct]
(May 1982)

DC, 1977 Series
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Volume
31
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-02-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike W. Barr (editor); Dick Giordano (managing editor)

Issue Notes

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

Death Sub, U.S.N.! (Table of Contents)

Unknown Soldier / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood (sourced)
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
C-860
Genre
war
Characters
The Unknown Soldier
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Death Sub, U.S.N. (Table of Contents: 1)

Unknown Soldier / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Haney
Pencils
Dick Ayers
Inks
Gerry Talaoc
Colors
Bob LeRose
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Job Number
J-7947
Genre
war
Synopsis
The Unknown Soldier stops a Japanese plan to infect the Navy with a plague.

Killers of the Sky! Chapter Two: Debt of Blood! (Table of Contents: 2)

Balloon Buster / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Dan Spiegle
Inks
Dan Spiegle
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
J-7809
Genre
war
Characters
Lt. Steve Savage, The Balloon Buster; Enemy Ace
Synopsis
Lt. Savage takes a blind boy to the Enemy Ace, so he can be taken to a German doctor.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Confidential Comments / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
Robin Snyder
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-983

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

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Upon the Gallows Tree! (Table of Contents: 5)

Tomahawk / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Haney
Pencils
José Delbo
Inks
Andy Mushynsky
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
J-7883
Genre
historical; western-frontier
Characters
Tomahawk
Synopsis
Tomahawk is found guilty of attempting to assassinate General Washington.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Death Sub, U.S.N.!
    Unknown Soldier
  2. 1. Death Sub, U.S.N.
    Unknown Soldier
  3. 2. Killers of the Sky! Chapter Two: Debt of Blood!
    Balloon Buster
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Confidential Comments
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. Upon the Gallows Tree!
    Tomahawk
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  • Gregory Fischer
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Jim Stangas
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