Volume: 11
Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1981-05-12
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (editorial director); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Mike W. Barr (credited) (associate editor); Karen Berger (credited) (editorial coordinator)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

The War That Time Forgot / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:C-615
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Incredible combat as submarine battles sea serpent!
This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

[Introduction]
(Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:
Len Wein (signed)
Pencils:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Inks:
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7507
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Behold the aftermath of battle, that aspect of war of which the poets seldom sing!
Characters:
Death

A Little Knowledge...
(Table of Contents: 2)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:science fiction; war; horror-suspense
  • Job Number:J-6952
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Day one: The ship lay broken and twisted across the rocky landscape.
  • Keywords:ants
Characters:
Col. Philip Mathews
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Originally intended for the cancelled Mystery in Space #118. Set sometime in the future.

The Robot Master
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

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

The Tomb at the Top of the Stairs!
(Table of Contents: 4)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7040
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The soldiers ascending the foreboding medieval tower were ready for anything... except...
Characters:
Death (host); Nick; Gary

Indexer Notes

Set in Berlin in the final days of World War II.

Epitaph for a Monster
(Table of Contents: 5)

The War That Time Forgot / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; war
  • Job Number:J-7149
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:For days, the U.S. Sub Swordfish has been on air-sea rescue patrol!
  • Keywords:dinosaurs
Characters:
Kris; Captain Trent

Indexer Notes

Set during World War II in a submarine and on an island of dinosaurs.

The White Knight
(Table of Contents: 6)

Weird War Tales / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; war; horror-suspense; science fiction
  • Job Number:J-7131
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:War is like a deadly game of chess, but when the Christian crusaders and Saracen forces battled in the Holy Land, no one could imagine the incredible and decisive move of...
Characters:
Death (host); Saladin; White Knight; unnamed page

Indexer Notes

Set during the Crusades in 1191 near Jerusalem.

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

A.P.O. Weird War Tales / letters page / 0.5 page

Script:
Bob Rozakis (review)
Bob Rozakis (credited as Ted. P. Skimmer) (letter replies, closing)
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (letterhead)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-803
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I found Weird War #96 to be an exemplary issue...
Characters:
Death

Indexer Notes

Letters from Pam Miller, Quizo, and Todd McFarlane (Calgary, Alberta). A review by Bob Rozakis of Thin Air (George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger).

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Incredible combat as submarine battles sea serpent!"]
    The War That Time Forgot
  2. [Introduction]
    Weird War Tales
  3. A Little Knowledge...
    Weird War Tales
  4. The Robot Master
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  5. The Tomb at the Top of the Stairs!
    Weird War Tales
  6. Epitaph for a Monster
    The War That Time Forgot
  7. The White Knight
    Weird War Tales
  8. ["I found Weird War #96 to be an exemplary issue..."]
    A.P.O. Weird War Tales
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