Weird War Tales

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Weird War Tales was the title of a comic book series that the American publisher DC Comics published between September 1971 and June 1983. In 1997 the title was revived for a miniseries.

Content

Weird War Tales , which reached 124 issues, specialized in war stories with particularly "bizarre" or "strange" content. Accordingly, in addition to the typical elements of war comics, the stories also often contained mystery, horror and science fiction elements. The recurring series that included the Weird War Tales included Creature Commandos , GI Robot, and The War That Time Forgot , a feature that was featured in the Star Spangled Comics series . The character Death , the personified Death dressed in changing uniforms, always leads through the booklet in a framework.

Release history

After the requirements of the comics code were relaxed so that stories with monsters and undead were allowed, DC Comics started the title Weird War Tales in 1971 to fill this niche in the market. The title arose from the experience of editors Carmine Infantino and Joe Orlando that the title suffix “weird” sells well. At the same time, they created the Weird Western Tales series . From September 1971 until the end of the title in June 1983 124 issues were published.

In 1997, Vertigo , an imprint of DC Comics that produces adult-oriented comics, released a four-part new Weird War Tales series. In 2000 a special followed in a booklet. Several volumes with a collection of selected stories from the series were published later:

  • The Steve Ditko Omnibus , Volume 1 with stories from Weird War Tales # 46, 49, 95, 99 and 104-106, 480 pages, September 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3111-X
  • Showcase Presents: Weird War Tales , Stories from Weird War Tales # 1–21, 576 pages, December 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3694-4
  • Creature Commandos , Tales from Weird War Tales # 93, 97, 100, 102, 105, 108–112, 114–119, 121 and 124, 288 pages, December 2013, ISBN 978-1401243821

Contributing artist

Authors who wrote for Weird War Tales include JM DeMatteis , Garth Ennis , Arnold Drake, Jack C. Harris, Robert Kanigher , Steve Gerber, Sheldon Mayer . The illustrators who worked on the series include Joe Kubert , Alfredo Alcala, Reed Crandall, Tony DeZuniga, Mort Drucker , Russ Heath , Alex Nino, Frank Robbins , Frank Thorne, Alex Toth , among others . The cartoonist Walt Simonson published his first comic in Weird War Tales # 10.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael McAvennie, Hannah Dolan (Ed.): "1970s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle . Dorling Kindersley, 2010. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9 .
  2. ^ Les Daniels: DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes . Bulfinch Press, 1995. p. 153. ISBN 0821220764 .
  3. ^ Jon B. Cooke: Simonson Says The Man of Two Gods Recalls His 25+ Years in Comics . Comic Book Artist, TwoMorrows Publishing (10), 2000. p. 18.

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