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Issue Details

Issue #68
Published October 1978
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 44
Editing Paul Levitz

Cover Details - "Rotirra--The Dinosaur Weapon!"

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

1 page Weird War Tales foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "I am Death--and you should welcome me!"

Characters Death
Genre war; horror
Pencils Romeo Tanghal
Inks Romeo Tanghal

8 page Weird War Tales story "Rotirra--the Monster-Weapon!"

Characters Death (host)
Genre war; horror
Script Bob Rozakis
Pencils Gerry Talaoc
Inks Gerry Talaoc
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Esphid Mahilum
Notes Set in the Pacific in June 1943 during World War II.

8 page Weird War Tales story "The Life and Death of Charlie Golem"

Characters Death (host)
Genre war; horror
Script Bob Toomey
Pencils Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]
Inks Ruben Yandoc [as Rubeny]
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Esphid Mahilum
Notes Set in summer of 1943 in Eastern Europe during World War II.

6 page Weird War Tales story "The Greatest Story Never Told"

Characters Death (host)
Genre war; horror
Script Paul Kupperberg
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Danny Bulanadi
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Todd Klein
Notes Set at the Teruel Front in Spain in 1937.
Reprinted in Sgt. Rock Special (DC, 1988 series) #6 (December 1989)

2 page The Day after Doomsday story "Slowly, painfully, you dig your way from the cold, choking debris..."

Genre war; science fiction
Script Roger McKenzie
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Bob Downs
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters John Workman
Notes Set sometime in the future. Title taken from first caption; the story contains no dialogue. The rubble of 75 Rockefeller Plaza, then DC Comics' address, is shown, along with a copy of C. Burkett's Collected Works.

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

Script Paul Levitz