Volume: 11
Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1981-02-10
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (editorial director); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editorial coordinator)
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The Creature Commandos Invade The War That Time Forgot!
(Table of Contents)

The Creature Commandos; The War That Time Forgot / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:C-583
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The sensational 100th issue of...
  • Keywords:dinosaurs
Characters:
Creature Commandos [Warren Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Vincent Velcro]
Reprints (1)
This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

[Introduction]
(Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7341
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You know my name--I am Death, the ultimate equalizer--and nowhere is my kingdom greater than here--in the weird war!
Characters:
Death

Dinosaur Convoy
(Table of Contents: 2)

The Creature Commandos; The War That Time Forgot / comic story / 15 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The South Pacific, 1943... where a chain of islands looks like nothing so much as the spine of a giant sea serpent, slumbering 'neath the waves...
  • Keywords:dinosaurs; monsters
Characters:
Creature Commandos [Warren Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Vincent Velcro; Lt. Matthew Shrieve]; dinosaurs
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Set in the south Pacific in 1943 during World War II.

Gold Mine Rescue
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

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

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

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-751
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:As part of the celebration of our 100th issue, we are presenting a special index of the stories that have appeared in Weird War Tales #'s 1-100.

Indexer Notes

Index of Weird War Tales #1-50.

Stop the War, I Want to Get Out!
(Table of Contents: 5)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Trevor Von Eeden (credited as Von Eeden)
Inks:
Brett Breeding (credited as Breeding)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6861
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Consider one Martin Donnelly, a nervous man in a tight place.
Characters:
Death (host); Martin Donnelly

Indexer Notes

Set on a movie soundstage in present day.

The Scavengers!
(Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-6860
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:16th Century Japan-- a nation torn by civil war as factional warlords vie ruthlessly for land and power.
  • Keywords:samurai
Characters:
Death; Warlord Takahara; Tenaka; Kojo

Indexer Notes

Set in 16th century Japan. Death does not host but appears in the story.

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    Table of Contents
  1. The Creature Commandos Invade The War That Time Forgot!
    The Creature Commandos; The War That Time Forgot
  2. [Introduction]
    Weird War Tales
  3. Dinosaur Convoy
    The Creature Commandos; The War That Time Forgot
  4. Gold Mine Rescue
    Hostess Twinkies; Superman
  5. ["As part of the celebration of our 100th issue, we are presenting a special index of the stories that have appeared in Weird War Tales #'s 1-100."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  6. Stop the War, I Want to Get Out!
    Weird War Tales
  7. The Scavengers!
    Weird War Tales
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