Volume: 9
Price: 0.40 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1979-01-09
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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The March of the Mammoths
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
George Evans (signed)
Inks:
George Evans (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:C-902
Reprints (1)
This issue has 1 variant

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: 0709893071704

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #164.

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

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Inks:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:J-5854
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:All men end their days here, in my land -- the realm of Death!
Characters:
Death

March of the Mammoth
(Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:J-5459
Characters:
Death (host)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set in the latter days of World War II on the Scandinavian Front.

The Ionic Storm
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

The Cold War
(Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:J-5848
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812 in Moscow.

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

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 0.67 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-216

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
(Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Date of Filing: October 1, 1978. Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 353,648.

Dead Image
(Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:J-5467
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Volume 79 Issue 2 - Week of January 8, 1979
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 8)

Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page

Hembeck
(Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The March of the Mammoths
  2. ["All men end their days here, in my land -- the realm of Death!"]
  3. March of the Mammoth
  4. The Ionic Storm
    Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman
  5. The Cold War
  6. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  7. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
  8. Dead Image
  9. Volume 79 Issue 2 - Week of January 8, 1979
    Daily Planet
  10. Hembeck
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  • Michael Bradley
  • Nick Caputo
  • Richard Fullam
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
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