Volume: 4
Price: 0.20 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1973-12-26
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (assistant editor)
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[The Bird of Death!]
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Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-3424
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Signature near finger.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #102.

The Bird of Death!
(Table of Contents: 1)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 11.5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-2029
Characters:
Death (host)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set in Summer 1944 in France during World War II.

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

The Day after Doomsday / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Dick Giordano (original editor)
  • Genre:science fiction; war
  • Job Number:G-841
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:They call it automation...
Characters:
Death (host)
Synopsis:
A man finds a candy machine that is full of money, but empty of food.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Set sometime in the future.

Corporal Kelly's Private War!
(Table of Contents: 3)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-3275
Characters:
Death (host)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set on 7 December 1941 in the Pacific, as well as the far future.

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

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:J-3403

Indexer Notes

Joe Orlando explains that the Day After Doomsday series was originally prepared under Dick Giordano for the mystery titles and new episodes would be appearing.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [The Bird of Death!]
    Weird War Tales
  2. The Bird of Death!
    Weird War Tales
  3. ["They call it automation..."]
    The Day after Doomsday
  4. Corporal Kelly's Private War!
    Weird War Tales
  5. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
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