WEIRD WAR TALES
Vol. 1 No. 2
November/December 1971
National Periodical Publications (DC Comics)
Publisher: Carmine Infantino
Editor: Joe Kubert
Cover: Joe Kubert
Pages: 52
Cover price: 25 cents
CONTENTS
"Look...and Listen..."
Story and art: Joe Kubert
"Reef of No Return"
Story: Bob Haney
Art: Mort Drucker
"The Moon is the Murderer"
Story: Bob Kanigher
Art: Frank Thorne
"Behind the Cover"
Story and art: Joe Kubert
"A Promise to Joe!"
Story: Hank Chapman
Art: Irv Novick
"The Devil Rider"
Text story
"Monsieur Gravedigger"
Story: Jerry DeFuccio
Art: Reed Crandall
"Military Madness"
Story and art: John Costanza
"The Grenadier"
Story: Joe Kubert
Art: Sam Glanzman
"The Face of a Fighter"
Story: Bill Finder
Art: Ross Andru and Mike Esposito
"Oasis"
Story and art: Joe Kubert
With the slogan, "Make WAR No More", DC comics planted their feet firmly in the ground with an anti-war stance. Many of the stories in WEIRD WAR TALES were infused with the same grim irony that had bee previously used in Warren's BLAZING COMBAT, which DC was surely influenced by. As a matter of fact, Bob Kanigher and Frank Thorne' wordless story in this issue would have fit comfortably within BC's pages.
It's interesting to note that chronologically, BLAZING COMBAT was published on the cusp of what would become known to the world as the Vietnam War and WWT was published during the midst of it. Both contained war stories from throughout history.
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