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Issue: Battle Classics #1
Publication Date: September 1978
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
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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): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Cary Burkett (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #157.
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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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Suicide Mission!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Colorist(s): Tatjana Wood
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Sgt. Rock; Lt. Johnny Cloud; Mlle. Marie (as The Man in the Iron Suit)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-796
Disclose Notes: Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Suicide Mission!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Kanigher
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Colorist(s): Mario Sen
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
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 Lt.); Mlle. Marie [as Martin]; Tex (fighter ppilot; 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)]
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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

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Michael Catron
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): DC Profiles
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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

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jenette Kahn
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): DC Publishorial
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 11 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Rozakis
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): It's the Answer Man!
First Line: What does Diana Prince (Wonder Woman of Earth-1) do for a living?
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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): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (Illustrations)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Sgt. Rock; Our Fighting Forces
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: house ad 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): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (illustration)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Secret Army Files
Character(s): Johnny Cloud
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Answer Man's Guide to the DC Explosion!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Rozakis
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: listing of all DC features and the titles in which they are now published

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