Volume: 9
Price: 0.40 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1979-09-11
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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Death by Hellfire!
(Table of Contents)

Weird War Tales / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
George Evans (signed)
Inks:
George Evans (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:C-195
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: 709893071712

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #172. On-sale date of September 1 in Meet the Dealers #13, provided by Batcave Comics Stores, New York, N.Y.

[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-6143
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When war began it was a personal affair -- man against man, for something important to both.
Characters:
Death

Funeral by Fire
(Table of Contents: 2)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6018
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in the Carpathian foothills of "Rumania" during World War II.

The Rescue
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

The Toy Battle
(Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6137
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 near Lorraine, France.

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

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

Script:
Bob Rozakis (review)
Paul Levitz (introduction, closing)
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-385

Indexer Notes

Instead of letters, this letters page includes book reviews by Bob Rozakis of SS-GB (Len Deighton) and The Gemini Contenders (Robert Ludlum).

An Outbreak of Peace
(Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Don Newton (credited as Newton)
Inks:
Dave Hunt (credited as Hunt)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6136
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in the south Pacific during World War II, as well as in Atlantis.

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

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

DC Puzzle / activity / 0.5 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:F-110

Indexer Notes

The bottom half of The DC Feature Page.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Death by Hellfire!
    Weird War Tales
  2. ["When war began it was a personal affair -- man against man, for something important to both."]
    Weird War Tales
  3. Funeral by Fire
    Weird War Tales
  4. The Rescue
    Hostess Twinkies; Superman
  5. The Toy Battle
    Weird War Tales
  6. [no title indexed]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  7. An Outbreak of Peace
    Weird War Tales
  8. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  9. [no title indexed]
    DC Puzzle
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