Volume: 7
Price: 0.30 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1977-02-08
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (story editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Jim Aparo (signed as J. Aparo)
Inks:
Jim Aparo (signed as J. Aparo)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:C-408
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You tried to escape your fate--but no man is beyond the reach of Death!
Characters:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Signature is the G.I.'s nametag.

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly (with the exception of Feb., June, Aug., and December)
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: Printed in U.S.A.
  • Barcode: 0709893071705

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #140.

The Whole World's Upside Down
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Batman; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

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

Weird War Tales / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-4569
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I am Death--the ultimate end of the unending circle of life...
Characters:
Death

Deadly Dominoes
(Table of Contents: 3)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-4561
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set somewhere in the European Theater during World War II.

Volume 77 Issue 6 - Week of February 7, 1977
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Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

The Day after Doomsday / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction; war
  • Job Number:J-4587
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gasp! Thank God... I've made it!
Synopsis:
A man makes his way home and enters the bomb shelter in his basement. He collapses from poison gas, which has already killed his wife and children.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set sometime in the future in what once was Grafton, West Virginia.

Something to Die For
(Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-3442
Characters:
Death (host)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set during the time of the Spanish conquistadores in 1532, Peru.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 0.75 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-622

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
(Table of Contents: 8)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Date of Filing: October 1, 1976. Average Number copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 335,000.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["You tried to escape your fate--but no man is beyond the reach of Death!"]
    Weird War Tales
  2. The Whole World's Upside Down
    Batman; Hostess Fruit Pies
  3. ["I am Death--the ultimate end of the unending circle of life..."]
    Weird War Tales
  4. Deadly Dominoes
    Weird War Tales
  5. Volume 77 Issue 6 - Week of February 7, 1977
    Daily Planet
  6. ["Gasp! Thank God... I've made it!"]
    The Day after Doomsday
  7. Something to Die For
    Weird War Tales
  8. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  9. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
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