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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