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Issue: Weird War Tales #68

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Publication Date: October 1978

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Issues: #68 of 124 Issues (197 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 07/11/1978

Volume: 8

Pages: 44

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893071710

Price: $0.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 10 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #158.

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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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- The Greatest Story Never Told [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

Rotirra-- The Dinosaur Weapon!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Feature(s): Weird War Tales

Character(s): Rotirra

First Line: Monsters fight mankind's wars!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-786

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Levitz ?

Penciller(s): Romeo Tanghal

Inker(s): Romeo Tanghal

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Feature(s): Weird War Tales

Character(s): Death

First Line: I am Death--and you should welcome me!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: J-5247

Rotirra-- the Monster-Weapon!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis

Penciller(s): Gerry Talaoc

Inker(s): Gerry Talaoc

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): Esphid Mahilum

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Feature(s): Weird War Tales

Character(s): Death (host); Rotirra; Captain Phillips; Marcone; Whitall; Andrews

First Line: This is a top secret footage of a Japanese super-weapon that threatened to destroy U.S. Naval might even more devastatingly than the attack on Pearl Harbor!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-5165

Notes: Set in the Pacific in June 1943 during World War II.

[untitled]

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Answer Man

First Line: Could you print the origin of The Atom?

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

Notes: Questions from Ken Hommel, Jacky Cornier, Jeff Witter, Steve Kampsen, Dave Hinderer, Brian Sam, Robbie Freitas, Frank Mastroni, Eduardo Espinosa and Terry W. Brown.

Number 40: Bob Le Rose

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): DC Profiles

First Line: Over the last two years the name Bob LeRose has been appearing with ever increasing frequency over the colorist's credit in many of the DC comics.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

Notes: Profile on Bob LeRose.

Batman and the Corsair of Crime

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman; Hostess Fruit Pies

Character(s): Batman; Robin; Corsair of Crime; Commissioner Gordon; Chief O'Hara

First Line: The Corsair of Crime is holding Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara as hostages?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Life and Death of Charlie Golem

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Toomey

Penciller(s): Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]

Inker(s): Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): Esphid Mahilum

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Feature(s): Weird War Tales

Character(s): Death (host); Privete Levy; Private Doyle; Harry; Charlie Golem

First Line: Summer 1943-- somewhere in Eastern Europe.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-4653

Notes: Set in summer of 1943 in Eastern Europe during World War II.

The Greatest Story Never Told

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Kupperberg

Penciller(s): Frank Miller

Inker(s): Danny Bulanadi

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, war

Feature(s): Weird War Tales

Character(s): Death (host); Capitan Garcia; Ernest Hemingway

First Line: In war, there are those who do, and others who merely record that which is done.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Sgt. Rock Special #6 [Direct] published December 1989
as The Greatest Story Never Told [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: J-5091

Notes: Set at the Teruel Front in Spain in 1937.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roger McKenzie

Penciller(s): Frank Miller

Inker(s): Bob Downs

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): John Workman

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, war

Feature(s): The Day after Doomsday

First Line: Slowly, painfully, you dig your way from the cold, choking debris...

Synopsis: The main character in this story turns out to be a cockroach that has survived the nuclear war.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights #[nn] published August 2014
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-5086

Notes: Set sometime in the future. The rubble of 75 Rockefeller Plaza, then DC Comics' address, is shown, along with a copy of C. Burkett's Collected Works.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Levitz

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (letterhead)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (letterhead)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): A.P.O. Weird War Tales

Character(s): Death

First Line: I've got to admit you really shocked me when you mentioned that Jack Oleck hasn't written a word for DC in four years.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: L-104

Notes: Letters from Beppe Sabatini and Mike Bates. Includes "Next Issue".