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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published November-December 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Kubert

Cover Details - "Behind the Cover"

Genre war
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)

3 page Weird War Tales story "Look...and Listen..."

Genre war
Script Joe Kubert
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Notes Introductory sequence. Set in the Sahara Desert, 1944.

5 page Weird War Tales story "Reef of No Return"

Genre war
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Mort Drucker (signed)
Inks Mort Drucker (signed)
Reprinted from Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #43 (March 1959).

4 page Weird War Tales story "The Moon Is the Murderer"

Genre war
Script Bob Kanigher
Pencils Frank Thorne (signed)
Inks Frank Thorne (signed)
Notes Writing credit derived from The Comic Reader #114.
Reprinted in Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #36 (April 1975).

2 page Weird War Tales story "Behind the Cover"

Genre war
Script Joe Kubert
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)
Reprinted in Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #36 (April 1975) [retitled there as "Death-Gram"].

3 page Weird War Tales story "A Promise to Joe!"

Genre war
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick
Reprinted from G.I. Combat (DC, 1957 series) #97 (December-January 1962-63)

1 page Weird War Tales text story "The Devil Rider"

Genre war
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset

8 page Weird War Tales story "Monsieur Gravedigger"

Genre war
Script Jerry DeFuccio (signed)
Pencils Reed Crandall (signed)
Inks Reed Crandall (signed)
Reprinted in Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #36 (April 1975).

1 page Weird War Tales story "Military Madness"

Genre Humor
Script John Costanza
Pencils John Costanza
Inks John Costanza
Letters John Costanza

2 page Sgt. Rock's Battle Stations story "The Grenadier"

Characters Sgt. Rock (vignette)
Genre war; fact
Script Joe Kubert
Pencils Sam Glanzman (signed)
Inks Sam Glanzman (signed)

6 page Weird War Tales story "The Face of a Fighter"

Genre war
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted from Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #25 (September 1957).

2 page Weird War Tales story "Oasis"

Genre war
Script Joe Kubert
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Letters Ben Oda