Volume: 8
Price: 0.35 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1978-02-07
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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Battleground
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Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:C-651

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • 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 #153.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:
?
Pencils:
Abe Ocampo (signed)
Inks:
Abe Ocampo (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction; war
  • Job Number:J-4866
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Welcome to infinity--the eternal background of the weird war!
Characters:
Death

Battleground
(Table of Contents: 2)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:J-4899
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II and sometime in the future.

Dilemma
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Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

To the Last Man
(Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:J-3844
Characters:
Death (host); Adam; Eve

Indexer Notes

Set at an unknown time of magic in the distant past or far future.

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

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

Script:
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L879

Indexer Notes

Instead of letters, this is an explanation of how Weird War Tales has seemed not to change for years due to the use of inventory stories. New writers and artists have been brought onto the series since the inventory stories are running out.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
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statement of ownership / 0.25 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Date of Filing: October 1, 1977. Average Number copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 308,478.

Len Wein Returns
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DC Publishorial / in-house column / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Battleground
    Weird War Tales
  2. ["Welcome to infinity--the eternal background of the weird war!"]
    Weird War Tales
  3. Battleground
    Weird War Tales
  4. Dilemma
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  5. To the Last Man
    Weird War Tales
  6. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  7. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
  8. Len Wein Returns
    DC Publishorial
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