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Issue: Weird War Tales #93
Publication Date: November 1980
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Issues: #93 of 124 Issues (197 Printings)
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Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/22/1980
Volume: 10
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #36)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Creature Commandos!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Creature Commandos [Griffith; Taylor; Lt. Matthew Shrieve; Velcro]; Nazis
First Line: Introducing World War II's weirdest warriors -- The Creature Commandos!
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Pages: 1
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death
First Line: It is said that there is nothing quite so handsome as a man in uniform!
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Pages: 1
Job Number: J-6839
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The Creature Commandos!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death (host); Creature Commandos [Griffith; Taylor; Lt. Matthew Shrieve; Velcro] (intro, origin)
First Line: Okay, gentlemen -- It appears the time for discretion is past -- we've got a wide-open fight on our hands!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: J-6445
Disclose Notes: Set during World War II.

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Batman vs. the League of Assassins

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; League of Assassins
First Line: The League of Assassins has chosen its next victim... the Caped Crusader himself!
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Pages: 1
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Ultimate Weapon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, war
Character(s): Death (host)
First Line: Against the backdrop of a once-mighty Metropolis, there stands a tightly guarded fortress...
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-6532
Disclose Notes: Set sometime in the future.
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Rising Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death (host); Masao Tabushi; Colonel Robert Simon; Sergeant Reynolds; Father Tabushi
First Line: In the early 1940s, thousands of Japanese-Americans were imprisoned in "relocations" camps, denied their possessions and rights as citizens!
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Pages: 7
Job Number: J-6593
Disclose Notes: Set in the early 1940s in a Japanese-American relocation camp during World War II.
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Life Hangs by a Thread

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death (host); Herbie; Lieut. Eddie Morton; Chuck Taylor
First Line: It's 1942, and you're down safe again, bellying up to the bamboo bar near the airstrip on that godforsaken slab of coral rock you dubbed "Chicken Gumbo Island," and it's easy to laugh at superstition.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: J-5805
Disclose Notes: Set in 1942 in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Death
First Line: I saw Weird War #87 in the comic book rack.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: L-609
Disclose Notes: Letters from William Shirley, Kirk Simonds, T. M. Maple, Peter Jencius and Robert Paulson. Len's Line-Up: On Sale August 11th.

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