Volume: 11
Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (editorial director); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editorial coordinator)
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My Buddy... The Robot!
(Table of Contents)

G.I. Robot / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Ross Andru (signed)
Inks:
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war
  • Job Number:C-613
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Introducing the most incredible warrior of World War Two!
  • Keywords:plane
Characters:
G.I. Robot
This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

[Introduction]
(Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:
Pencils:
Howard Bender (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Todd Klein (sourced) (intro page)
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7193
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wars do not just happen!
Characters:
Death

My Buddy-- The Robot!
(Table of Contents: 2)

G.I. Robot / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war
  • Job Number:J-7043
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:At battalion first aid on a vital Pacific island being savagely fought over.
Characters:
G.I. Robot [J.A.K.E. 1] (intro); Sargeant Coker; Professor Thompson

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

Gold for Dessert
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Dry Run
(Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:J-6732
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:By the year 2000, the sight of marching soldiers have become an everyday occurance!
Characters:
Death (host)

Indexer Notes

Set in the year 2000.

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

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-752
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:For all you Weird War-ophiles, we present the second half of our index of the stories in our first issues...
Characters:
Death

Indexer Notes

Index to Weird War Tales #51-100.

Twice a Traitor
(Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7109
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:French Indochina, 1953: where the war zone has become a place of refuge for those who have joined the Foreign Legion to escape a notorious past.
Characters:
Death (host); Corporal Hauser [also as Bielsky]; Sgt. Schmidt; Colonel Duprey

Indexer Notes

Set in French Indochina in 1953.

Push-Button Hero!
(Table of Contents: 7)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction; war
  • Job Number:J-7207
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What feat of fearlessness what deed of derring-do would it take to turn a sneaky, treacherous, conniving coward into a...
Characters:
Death (host); Harry Plunkett; Floyd; Lieutenant

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. My Buddy... The Robot!
    G.I. Robot
  2. [Introduction]
    Weird War Tales
  3. My Buddy-- The Robot!
    G.I. Robot
  4. Gold for Dessert
    Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man
  5. Dry Run
    Weird War Tales
  6. ["For all you Weird War-ophiles, we present the second half of our index of the stories in our first issues..."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
  7. Twice a Traitor
    Weird War Tales
  8. Push-Button Hero!
    Weird War Tales
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