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Issue Details

Issue #102
Published August 1981
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein

Cover Details - "The Creature Commandos Battle Hitler..! ...And Guess Who Comes Out Second-best!"

Characters Creature Commandos [Warren Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Vincent Velcro; Lt. Matthew Shrieve]; Adolf Hitler
Genre war; fantasy
Pencils Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)

8 page Weird War Tales story "Dog Tag Lottery"

Characters Death (host)
Genre war; occult
Script Michael Fleisher
Pencils Noly Zamora
Inks Noly Zamora
Colors Jerry Serpe
Notes Set in the Korean War.

1 page Weird War Tales story "Grudge Match in the Grave"

Genre war; occult
Script David Allikas
Pencils Luke McDonnell [as McDonnel]
Inks Rodin Rodriguez
Notes Set during World War II at a Nazi camp.

8 page Creature Commandos story "The Children's Crusade!"

Characters Death (host); Adolf Hitler; Creature Commandos [Warren Griffith; "Lucky" Taylor; Vincent Velcro; Lt. Matthew Shrieve]
Genre war; fantasy
Script J. M. DeMatteis
Pencils Fred Carrillo
Inks Fred Carrillo
Colors Adrienne Roy
Letters Esphid Mahilum
Notes Set during World War II.

3 page Weird War Tales story "A Wish to Die!"

Characters Death (host)
Genre war; occult
Script George Kashdan
Pencils John Garcia [as Garcia]
Inks John Celardo [as Celardo]
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Milt Snapinn
Notes Set in "a sandy African shiekdom."

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

Script Bob Rozakis [as Ted P. Skimmer]
Pencils ? (letter head)
Inks ? (letter head)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Dean Rollings, "McIntosh" Mark Amundsen and Antone Perry. Explains that all three letter-writers will receive stats of Weird War Tales covers.

5 page Weird War Tales story "Astral Attackers"

Genre science fiction; war
Script Dan Mishkin; Gary Cohn
Pencils Trevor von Eeden
Inks Jerry Ordway
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Gaspar Saladino [as Gaspar]
Notes Set in a video game arcade in present day, as well as in outer space.