Volume: 11
Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1980-10-21
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor)
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The Mutation of Pvt. Voight!
(Table of Contents)

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-493
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You may love it! You may hate it! But we promise you will never forget it!
Characters:
Pvt. Voight
This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On sale date from DC Coming Attractions #48.

[Introduction]
(Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:
Pencils:
Steve Biasi (signed)
Inks:
Steve Biasi (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6905
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Since Icarus first strapped on his waxen wings, man has yearned to fly...
Characters:
Death

The Mutation of Pvt. Voight!
(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-6558
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:1967 was a good year for eighteen-year-old Marty Voight.
Characters:
Death (host); Marty Voight; Jeffie Burns; Shelley; Lt. Kelly; Melanie

Indexer Notes

Set in 1967 during the Vietnam War in the United States and South Vietnam.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Weird War Games / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Dave Manak (signed)
Inks:
Dave Manak (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; war
  • Job Number:J-6888
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:At last, herr colonel, here is Fritz, the perfect fighting machine!
Characters:
Fritz

The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 4)

The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Where Hatred Blooms
(Table of Contents: 5)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6767
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:"Make love, not war," went a recent slogan!
Characters:
Death (host); Lt. Goernich; Lt. Cole; Wilhelm

Indexer Notes

Set in Holland during World War II.

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

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

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-667
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:First off, I'd like to offer congratulations on the conversion to the 25-page format.

Indexer Notes

Letters from T.M. Maple, James Sands, Bent Hanlen, Richard Faulhaber, Kevin Munkies, and Mark P. Lord. Len's Line-Up: On Sale November 13th.

The Last Shot Fired
(Table of Contents: 7)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:J-6766
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:With the invention of the marvelous solar cannon of the late 1990s, humankind at last reached its ultimate warmaking capacity!
  • Keywords:alien
Characters:
Death (host); Kyle Lassiter

Indexer Notes

Set sometime in the future, after the 1990s.

Hangman's Knot!
(Table of Contents: 8)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6743
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It is not for nothing that a dragon is the symbol of China!
Characters:
Death (host); Brawler

Indexer Notes

Set in 1899 on the Yangtze River in China.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The Mutation of Pvt. Voight!
    Weird War Tales
  2. [Introduction]
    Weird War Tales
  3. The Mutation of Pvt. Voight!
    Weird War Tales
  4. ["At last, herr colonel, here is Fritz, the perfect fighting machine!"]
    Weird War Games
  5. The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
    The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies
  6. Where Hatred Blooms
    Weird War Tales
  7. ["First off, I'd like to offer congratulations on the conversion to the 25-page format."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  8. The Last Shot Fired
    Weird War Tales
  9. Hangman's Knot!
    Weird War Tales
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