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Issue: Weird War Tales #97

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Publication Date: March 1981

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Issues: #97 of 124 Issues (200 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/11/1980

Volume: 11

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893071703

Price: $0.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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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Weird War Tales #97 [Direct]

Weird War Tales #97 [British]

Weird War Tales #97 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Character(s): Creature Commandos [Griffith; Taylor; Lt. Matthew Shrieve; Velcro]

First Line: They're back-- with a vengeance!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-528

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Character(s): Death

First Line: In combat, every second is critical--from the five-second timer on a hand grenade fuse to the momentary hesitation that puts your head directly in line with a random rifle slug!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-6911

The Faceless Enemy!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Character(s): Death (host); Creature Commandos [Griffith; Taylor; Lt. Matthew Shrieve; Velcro]; nazi soldiers; Doctor Frederique (imposter)

First Line: This has become a pathetically common sight in occupied France: The hated German war-machine rolling imperiously across the countryside...

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-6592

Notes: Set in France during World War II.

Superman Saves the Weather Satellites!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Tara Cobal

First Line: Hundreds of miles from Earth, weather satellites are on a collision course.

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Pages: 1

The Master Infiltrator

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, fantasy, horror, war

Character(s): Death (host); Hans Kruger; Robert Boothe; General Cathcart; Dr. Ed Nardell; President Franklin Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin; Jenkins; Winston Churchill

First Line: February, 1941... though it is months before the United States will be drawn into the Second World War by the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor...

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Pages: 16

Job Number: J-6627

Notes: Divided in 3 parts: "Russian Roulette! / The English Channel! / American Ingenuity!". Set in 1941 during World War II.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Death

First Line: It seems like another excellent issue of Weird War Tales has passed my way and I am certainly more than pleased with the results.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-693

Notes: Along with letters from James Steagall, Jeff McLaren and David Kueragas, this letters page includes reviews by Bob Rozakis of Ice! (Arnold Federbush) and The Holcroft Covenant (Robert Ludlam). Len's Line-Up: On Sale in December.