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Issue: Battle Classics #1
Publication Date: September 1978
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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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):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #157 (June 1978).
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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
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Suicide Mission!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Sgt. Rock; Lt. Johnny Cloud; Mlle. Marie (as The Man in the Iron Suit)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-796
Disclose Notes: Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin.

Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos B #23: BATTLE CLASSICS, 9 April 2021.
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Suicide Mission!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): 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 Lieutenant); Mlle. Marie [as Martin]; Tex (fighter pilot, cameo); Big-Brother-in-the-Sky
Synopsis: Sgt. Rock, Jeb Stuart and Johnny Cloud must get a valuable agent code-named named "Martin" to the Allies.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Brave and the Bold #52 published February 1964
was Suicide Mission! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 23.83
Job Number: J-5431
Disclose Notes: 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.
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39 José Luis Garcia-Lopez

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of page 6 of the main story sequence. Script credit confirmed by Michael Catron.
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Onward and Upward

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): DC Publishorial
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 11 of the main story sequence.
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It's the Answer Man!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: What does Diana Prince (Wonder Woman of Earth-1) do for a living?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of page 16 of the main story sequence.
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The Sound and the Fury

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Our Fighting Forces; Sgt. Rock
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House advertisement for Sgt. Rock (DC, 1977 series) #320 and Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #181.
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Johnny Cloud, USAF

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Secret Army Files
Character(s): Johnny Cloud
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Answer Man's Guide to the DC Explosion!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A listing of all the DC features and titles currently being published.

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