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Issue: Weird War Tales #68
Publication Date: October 1978
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Issues: #68 of 124 Issues (200 Printings)
Title:
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: 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):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #158.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Rotirra-- The Dinosaur Weapon!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Rotirra
First Line: Monsters fight mankind's wars!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-786
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Feature(s): Weird War Tales
Character(s): Death
First Line: I am Death--and you should welcome me!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-5247
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Rotirra-- the Monster-Weapon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-5165
Disclose Notes: Set in the Pacific in June 1943 during World War II.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Could you print the origin of The Atom?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose 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.
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Number 40: Bob Le Rose

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Profile on Bob LeRose.
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Batman and the Corsair of Crime

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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
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The Life and Death of Charlie Golem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-4653
Disclose Notes: Set in summer of 1943 in Eastern Europe during World War II.
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The Greatest Story Never Told

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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: FlagSgt. Rock Special #6 [Direct] published December 1989
as The Greatest Story Never Told [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: J-5091
Disclose Notes: Set at the Teruel Front in Spain in 1937.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction, war
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: FlagShowcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights #[nn] published August 2014
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-5086
Disclose 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.
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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'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
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-104
Disclose Notes: Letters from Beppe Sabatini and Mike Bates. Includes "Next Issue".

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