Volume: 8
Price: 0.35 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1978-03-07
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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[Deliver Me from D-Day]
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Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:C-670

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: 0709893071706

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #154.

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

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

Script:
?
Pencils:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Inks:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-5009
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I am Death, and though I have mastered this world since it began, still there is no length to which men will not go to avoid my touch!
Characters:
Death

Deliver Me from D-Day
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Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-4878
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in late spring of 1944 during World War II.

Number 32 Midge Bregman
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DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page

[no title indexed]
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The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page

Imperiled Sub
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Aquaman; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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The Day after Doomsday / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction; war
  • Job Number:J-4990
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Senator, is it my fault that the terrorists were using Kelvin machine guns?
Characters:
Death (host); John W. Kelvin; Sherlaw
Synopsis:
John W. Kelvin, president of Kelvin Armaments, pays millions to have his scientist Sherlaw build him a suspended animation device. When nuclear war in inevitable, Kelvin is frozen for 500 years. When he awakens and goes to the surface, he is executed for causing World War Three.
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Indexer Notes

Set in 1985 and 2485.

The Stand-in
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Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-4949
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

[no title indexed]
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A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-893
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [Deliver Me from D-Day]
    Weird War Tales
  2. ["I am Death, and though I have mastered this world since it began, still there is no length to which men will not go to avoid my touch!"]
    Weird War Tales
  3. Deliver Me from D-Day
    Weird War Tales
  4. Number 32 Midge Bregman
    DC Profiles
  5. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  6. Imperiled Sub
    Aquaman; Hostess Twinkies
  7. ["Senator, is it my fault that the terrorists were using Kelvin machine guns?"]
    The Day after Doomsday
  8. The Stand-in
    Weird War Tales
  9. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
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