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Issue: Weird War Tales #105
Publication Date: November 1981
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Issues: #105 of 124 Issues (200 Printings)
Title:
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: 07/14/1981
Volume: 11
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 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 War at Home!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Creature Commandos [Velcro; Taylor; Griffith]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-701
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit revealed in the letters page of issue #110.
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Death
First Line: Mortals, as always, are fools!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-7646
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The War at Home!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Creature Commandos [Velcro; Taylor; Griffith; Lt. Shrieve]; Mayor White; Nancy White
First Line: The thunderous roar of exploding shells shatters the morning stillness at an otherwise-deserted Midwest Army base, as hulking armor-plated death bears down on three fantastic-but-familiar uniformed figures...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: J-6987
Disclose Notes: Set "circa 1943" in Freedom, New York during World War II
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Clean Sweep

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Tornado [John Smith]; Vacuum Vulture
First Line: A mysterious vacuum thief strikes nightly in Metropolis, devouring items of invaluable taste.
Synopsis: Red Tornado uses Hostess Cup Cakes to attract the attention of the villainous Vacuum Vulture.
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Pages: 1
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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 take back what I said last issue.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-868
Disclose Notes: Letters from Steve Tafuni, Gordon Manley, Kevin Browne, TM Maple, and Jim Kosmicki. Special hello to Christopher Roberts, Todd McFarlane, Bill Davis, and George Case.
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Stolen Skin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Death (host); Commandant Hans Ulrich; Commandant Dorff; Professor Steiner; Adolf Hitler
First Line: The window in the quarters of Commandant Hans Ulrich framed an unchanging landscape night and day in the German concentration camp...
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In Content Item: FlagMysterieserier #6/1983 published June 1983
as Skinnad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-7506
Disclose Notes: Set in a concentration camp during World War II as well as ten years later in Brazil.
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Death's Second Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Death (host); Bette; Anna
First Line: In the winter of 1924, the spectral finger of Death pointed at a car speeding on a slippery road west of Berlin.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: J-7162
Disclose Notes: Set in winter 1924 in Berlin and during World War II in Germany and the United States.
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The Last War Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Death (host)
First Line: Eventually, it is forecast, battles will not be fought by men -- but by computers!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-7107?
Disclose Notes: Set from 2159 to 2205.

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