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Issue: Weird War Tales #83
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #83 of 124 Issues (200 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/09/1979
Volume: 10
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893071701
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #173.
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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 Mystery and Madness of...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Nazis
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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: This is my new throne room... the citadel of mass murder, from which bombs and missiles can fly forth to destroy the world!
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Pages: 1
Job Number: J-6201
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Prison of the Mind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death (host); Sgt. Samuel Grinspan; Dr. Hakim Jallud; Col. Talal
First Line: A tiny cell-- a barracks-- a vast concentration camp... all of these have been called prisons!
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Pages: 8
Job Number: J-6066
Disclose Notes: Set in Israel in October and November 1974.
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The Stony-Eyed Medusa

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash; Medusa
First Line: Flash is in pursuit of Medusa... a woman "whose stare turns people into stone."
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Death
First Line: If I'm not mistaken, Weird War Tales #77 was Bill Kelley's first novel-lenghter.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: L-397
Disclose Notes: Letters from A. Gary Giroux and Unsigned (from Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Includes "Next Month".
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A Toast to the Dying

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Death (host); Braklowa
First Line: In vino veritas (in wine there is truth) the Romans used to say!
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Pages: 3
Job Number: J-6160
Disclose Notes: Set in a Rumanian mountain village and Braklowa Castle during World War II.
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Penitence

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Death (host); N'Tuma; Kuna; Sgt. Beverly; Capt. Claredon; Kataru
First Line: To clear the way for the British South African Company and Europeans colonists in Rhodesia in 1891, English soldiers were sent into the vast plains of this African nation to Quell native resistance.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: J-6163
Disclose Notes: Set in Rhodesia in 1891.
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Volume 79 Issue 41 - Week of October 8, 1979

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Starman [Prince Gavyn]
First Line: New Starman debuts!
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Pages: 0.8
Job Number: P-341
Disclose Notes: Information on Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #467 (with illustration from 1st page of #468 by Ditko, Tanghal & Roy) and Sgt. Rock #336. Daily Planet News Update: comics reverting to 40 cents. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of October 22nd and On Sale Right Now. Ask the Answer Man! with questions from Loren Stachak, Phillip Weaver, Guy Beauregard, Dick Hopkins, Jeff Alphin, Brent Burrow, Aaron Skentzos, Tom Carlton, Paul Cianci, Chris Kolesey and John Bankson.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Steve Trevor
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