Weird War Tales
#117
[Direct]
(November 1982)
DC,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 12
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-08-03
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (editor); Robin Snyder (sourced) (assistant editor); Tamsyn O'Flynn (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[A Miracle for Monsters!]
The Creature Commandos / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (sourced)
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-121
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Characters
- Creature Commandos [Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Dr. Medusa; Velcro]; Nazis
- Reprints
-
in Creature Commandos (DC, 2014 series) ([March] 2014)
-
- Keywords
- monsters; Nazis
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A Miracle for Monsters!
The Creature Commandos / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher
- Pencils
- Fred Carrillo
- Inks
- Fred Carrillo
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited as J. Serpe)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-8358
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a guide solemnly intones like a worn record...
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Characters
- Creature Commandos [Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Velcro; Dr. Medusa; Lt. Matthew Shrieve]; Babette; Nazis
- Reprints
- in Creature Commandos (DC, 2014 series) ([March] 2014)
-
- Keywords
- monsters; Nazis
Indexer Notes
Set during World War II.
Family Portrait
The G.I. Robot / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-8370
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- War in the Pacific boils over! Planes tear each other from the skies!
- Genre
- science fiction; war
- Characters
- G.I. Robot [J.A.K.E. 2]; Cap; a robot cat (intro); Sgt. Coker; Amy Allison
- Keywords
- robots
Indexer Notes
Set during World War II on the Pacific island of Tattu.
[no title indexed]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1.5 pages
- Script
- Tamsyn O'Flynn (credited as TOF)
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (letterhead)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-1144
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Okay, I know I've been down on this mag lately, and particularly the Creature Commandos, but I said to myself-- be a different, say nothing but positive comments this time for a change.
- Characters
- Death
Indexer Notes
Letters from T. M. Maple, Tarn Stephanos, Michael Hamill, Tony Laker, Paul Entrekin, and SP4 J. D. Long.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[A Miracle for Monsters!]
The Creature Commandos -
1.
A Miracle for Monsters!
The Creature Commandos -
2.
A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure
Dungeons & Dragons -
3.
Sgt. Rock Is on the Move in 82!
Sgt. Rock -
4.
Family Portrait
The G.I. Robot -
5.
["Okay, I know I've been down on this mag lately, and particularly the Creature Commandos, but I said to myself-- be a different, say nothing but positive comments this time for a change."]
A.P.O. Weird War Tales -
6.
On Sale August 26th
DC Coming Comics
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Van Dore
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