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Issue Details

Issue	#89
Published	July 1980
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.40 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Paul Levitz

Cover Details - "The Primate Platoon"

Genre	war; horror
Pencils	Jim Starlin
Inks	Jim Starlin

1 page Weird War Tales foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Centuries pass, the art of war changes, battlements that once proudly guarded nations' borders collapse into dust..."

Characters	Death
Genre	war; horror
Pencils	Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Inks	Romeo Tanghal (signed)

6 page Weird War Tales story "Primate Patrol"

Characters	Death (host)
Genre	war; horror
Script	George Kashdan
Pencils	Ken Landgraf
Inks	Dave Simons
Colors	Adrienne Roy
Letters	Albert DeGuzman
Notes	Set in Africa during World War II.

1 page A.P.O. Weird War Tales letters page

Script	Paul Levitz
Letters	typeset

2 page Weird War Tales story "This Ship Shall Be Your Coffin"

Characters	Death (host)
Genre	war; horror
Script	George Kashdan
Pencils	Ric Estrada
Inks	Ric Estrada
Colors	Adrienne Roy
Letters	Albert DeGuzman [as Guzman]
Notes	Set in May 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.

8 page Weird War Tales story "Death the Dread Drummer"

Characters	Death
Genre	war; horror
Script	Robert Kanigher
Pencils	Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]
Inks	Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]
Notes	Set in summer 1917 on the Western Front during World War I. Death does not host but appears as "Death the Dread Drummer."