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Weird war tales was an anthology series that told war related stories with science fiction, horror, mystery and suspense. Weird war tales was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by dc comics which ran from september 1971 to june 1983. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in war comics, horror comics, and. I loved weird war tales back in the 1970s as it combined two of my favorite genres. Dell was well represented with four warthemed titles including war heroes, war stories, and america in action in 1942, the latter not really a comic book but prose stories with. Alien the original screenplay alien vs predator avatar last airbender gn bang. Weird war tales is one of the first comics that i read when i was much younger. It was intended to be used after all this and world war ii and before the revenge of kang. In his tale filled with the reanimated corpses of winston churchill.
The best site for downloading free public domain golden age comic books. The wartime setting adds tension to these eerie scenes, giving them added effect. Strange tales is a marvel comics anthology series title that appeared and was revived in different forms on multiple occasions throughout the companys history. Thor would only last five issues whose place in the roster is taken by a more earthbound character named dynamite thor in issue 6. Stargazers hunt everything ii frankenstein undone god of war grendel hellboy and the bprd hidden society incredibles 2 invisible kingdom. Funniest superheroes comics and jokes dc and marvel funny comics that will make you laugh duration. Filled with aliens, spaceships, and monsters from other worlds, weird wonder tales was the archetypical sciencefictionhorror comic. Weird war tales was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by dc comics. The original title ran for 12 years and 124 issues. Dc quickly took advantage of that new freedom to introduce weird war tales later that year. Each issue was hosted by death, usually depicted as a skeleton dressed in a different military uniform in each issue. I was looking forward to the release of this showcase edition so i could reread some of the older stories and read some of the issues i missed.
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It was the second of a threepart module where the player characters are intended to timetravel using an alien time machine. Weird war tales 78 cover joe kubert comic book wallpaper. Recurring characters began to appear late in the series run, notably the creature commandos, g. Back in the dark ages, when comic books were a threat to americas youth and not a multibilliondollar multimedia merchandising empire, children because comics were for children back then kept their copies of ghostly weird stories and exciting war in shoeboxes under the bed, if at all. Weird war tales makes a strong case for what an anthology comic book. It was published from septemberoctober 1971 to june 1983. It was intended to be used before the weird, weird west and the revenge of kang the player characters are contacted by nick fury to. The original marvel tales was published from 19491957 by atlas this series started out as marvel tales annual in the years. Primate platoon comic books art, war comics, vintage comic books. Published by dc comics as a war comic book title with supernatural overtones, issue ninety three of weird war tales is probably best remembered for both its frighteningly dramatic joe kubert cover illustration, and the fact that at a time when the publisher was trying to revivify the mystery books by putting series into them, it introduced world war twos weirdest.
Reef of no return, script by bob haney, art by mort drucker. Apr 8, 2019 weird war tales was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by dc comics which ran from september 1971 to june 1983. Robot, and the return of the war that time forgot which. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. With the comics code authority relaxing its decades long stance on censoring the use of monsters and the undead in mainstream comics, dc placed an emphasis on the horror of combat with weird war. During the second world war there was a foreignexchange crisis which led to a ban being placed on the importation of u. Download free marvel comics free spiderman, iron man. Of course, it can easily be argued that war is horror, but i mean horror in the occult and mystical sense. New look coming for worldwide comics in early january we will launch a new look for our website with improved search functions, a want list capability for clients and a new color scheme with design on the site. Debuting in 1923, weird tales, writes the pulp magazines project, provided a venue for fiction, poetry and nonfiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult. This period, which witnessed an explosion of englishcanadian comic book publishing, is now described as the canadian golden age of comics. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf. All this and world war ii is a roleplaying game adventure published by tsr, inc. It combined two elements of story telling that i found fascinating, military fiction and the paranormal.
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