Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	February 1954
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Robert Kanigher (actual)
Notes	first issue edited by Robert Kanigher

Cover Details

Genre	period
Pencils	Irv Novick
Inks	Irv Novick
Notes	first issue edited by Robert Kanigher

6 page story "The Gladiator"

Script	France Herron
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Joe Giella
Notes	Pencils and inks credits confirmed by Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (10 August 2007)

5 page story "Human Trigger"

Script	France Herron
Pencils	Ross Andru
Inks	Mike Esposito
Notes	Pencils credit confirmed by Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (10 August 2007)
Reprinted	in Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #5 (May-June 1972)

5 page story "Ninety-Day Wonder"

Script	Art Wallace
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Sy Barry
Notes	Pencils and inks credits confirmed by Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (10 August 2007). The original indexer credited the inks to Gene Colan.

6 page story "Warrior Shepherd"

Script	France Herron
Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Carmine Infantino
Notes	Pencils and inks credits confirmed by Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (10 August 2007)
Reprinted	in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #411 (October 1971)

1 page Sgt. Route-Step O'Malley story

Script	Irwin Hasen
Pencils	Irwin Hasen
Inks	Irwin Hasen

1 page story "War Cart to Tank"

Notes	Facts about Tanks
Reprinted	in Star Spangled War Stories (DC, 1952 series) #62