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Issue: Battle Classics #1
Publication Date: September 1978
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/20/1978
Volume: 1
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893343410
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Cary Burkett (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #157.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Suicide Mission!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Joe Kubert (signed)
Joe Kubert (signed)
Tatjana Wood
Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
war
Sgt. Rock; Lt. Johnny Cloud; Mlle. Marie (as The Man in the Iron Suit)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
C-796
Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin.
Suicide Mission!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Joe Kubert (signed)
Joe Kubert (signed)
Mario Sen
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
war
Haunted Tank; Lt. Jeb Stuart (promoted); Arch Asher; Rick Rawlins; Slim Stryker; General J.E.B. Stuart (ghost); Sgt. Rock; Easy Company [Dead-Eye (death)]; Captain Johnny Cloud (promoted from Lt.); Mlle. Marie [as Martin]; Tex (fighter ppilot; cameo); Big-Brother-in-the-Sky
Sgt. Rock, Jeb Stuart and Johnny Cloud must get a valuable agent code-named named "Martin" to the Allies.
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #52 published February 1964
was Suicide Mission! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
23.83
J-5431
Story in three (not four, as stated) parts of 5.67 pages, 9.67 pages, and 8.5 pages. The final caption on the original story removed for this reprinting.

The sequel to this story, originally published in Our Army at War (DC, 1952 series) #140, was to be reprinted in #2.
39 José Luis Garcia-Lopez

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Michael Catron
Subject Matter
informational
DC Profiles
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
At the bottom of page 6 of the main story sequence. Script credit confirmed by Michael Catron.
Onward and Upward

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jenette Kahn
?
typeset
Subject Matter
DC Publishorial
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
On the page immediately preceding page 11 of the main story sequence.
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Rozakis
typeset
Subject Matter
It's the Answer Man!
What does Diana Prince (Wonder Woman of Earth-1) do for a living?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
At the bottom of page 16 of the main story sequence.
The Sound and the Fury

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Joe Kubert (Illustrations)
Joe Kubert (illustrations)
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
war
Sgt. Rock; Our Fighting Forces
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
house ad for Sgt. Rock (DC, 1977 series) #320 and Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #181
Johnny Cloud, USAF

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Joe Kubert (illustration)
Joe Kubert (illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
war
Secret Army Files
Johnny Cloud
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Answer Man's Guide to the DC Explosion!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Rozakis
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
listing of all DC features and the titles in which they are now published

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