Volume: 9
Price: 0.40 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1979-02-13
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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[Ghost Patrol]
(Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:C-940
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: 0709893071705

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #165.

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

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

Script:
?
Pencils:
John Calnan (signed)
Inks:
John Calnan (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-5864
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I am Death, and only my advance is truly inexorable!
Characters:
Death

The Forgery
(Table of Contents: 2)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-5520
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in the Netherlands during World War II.

Fire of the Gods!
(Table of Contents: 3)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-5827
Characters:
Death (host); Alexander the Great

Indexer Notes

Set from 334 B.C. to 330 B.C. in Chai'chung village, China.

The Golden Treasure
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Ghost Patrol
(Table of Contents: 5)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-5585?
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set on 1 August 1944 in France during World War II. Four soldiers become ghosts as a kind of updated version of the Ghost Patrol (a name used only as the title).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:
Pencils:
? (letter head)
Inks:
? (letter head)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-232
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [Ghost Patrol]
    Weird War Tales
  2. ["I am Death, and only my advance is truly inexorable!"]
    Weird War Tales
  3. The Forgery
    Weird War Tales
  4. Fire of the Gods!
    Weird War Tales
  5. The Golden Treasure
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  6. Ghost Patrol
    Weird War Tales
  7. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
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