Volume: 30
Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor)
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First Mission!
(Table of Contents)

Unknown Soldier / cover / 1 page

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Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
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Letters:
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  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:C-527
This issue has 2 variants

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Doorway of Destiny!
(Table of Contents: 1)

Unknown Soldier / comic story / 17 pages

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  • Genre:war
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Synopsis:
The "real" origin of the Unknown Soldier is revealed. Details of his time after he was disfigured, and his first mission are detailed. Also the first meeting with Mrs. Doolittle and Sparrow are shown. This is a new origin for the Unknown Soldier.

Indexer Notes

Story is divided into three parts. Part Two is entitled "The Right Man in the Right Place" and Part Three is entitled "The Torch Is Passed."

The Baron
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 2)

Hostess Cup Cakes; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Mask of a Maqui
(Table of Contents: 3)

Mlle. Marie / comic story / 8 pages

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Gaspar Saladino (credited as Gaspar)
  • Genre:war
Characters:
Mlle. Marie
Synopsis:
Marie is disfigured in an explosion, but is restored at the end of the story.

[no title indexed]
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Confidential Comments / letters page / 1 page

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typeset
  • Job Number:L-694
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. First Mission!
    Unknown Soldier
  2. Doorway of Destiny!
    Unknown Soldier
  3. The Baron
    Hostess Cup Cakes; Wonder Woman
  4. Mask of a Maqui
    Mlle. Marie
  5. [no title indexed]
    Confidential Comments
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