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Weird War Tales 21

02 Monday Feb 2015

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Bernard Baily, Frank Robbins, Ghost in the Portrait, Jack Oleck, Joe Orlando, one hour to kill, Sheldon Mayer, soldier, time travel, war, Weird War Tales, weird war tales 21, when death took a hand

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You can still buy the original Weird War Tales #21 at a decent price if you don’t mind VG to VG+ copies. Printed by DC Comics in the early 1970s, Weird War Tales also makes regular appearances on eBay where you can often score inexpensive lots of several issues at once. The stories blend sci-fi, horror, and fantasy elements into vignettes about war and combat. Pretty much anything goes in these tales as long as there’s a war on!

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The first story, One Hour to Kill, gives us a man tasked with traveling back in time to kill Leonardo da Vinci before Leo can establish an early design for guns, thereby eliminating from history all human suffering caused by our propensity to shoot each other with small projectiles at high velocities. It turns out pretty much like every EC Comics story that had a similar idea in the 1950s, but that doesn’t stop it from being fun.

Here are the last three pages, below, where the tale reaches its climax.

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Another story, When Death Took a Hand, stood out to us not simply as a worthy ghost story but as an example of a pretty sweet art technique. Look how the spooky ghost soldier is rendered. It looks to us like the inker rendered the black shapes and lines of the ghost, but then drew white lines through it with a white pen. No, that’s not exactly a revolutionary idea to today’s comic book artists, but try digging out any other comic book made in 1974 and finding this cool visual effect.

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Credits: Cover art by Luis Dominguez. One Hour to Kill script by Jack Oleck, art by Frank Robbins. When Death Took a Hand script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Bernard Baily. Joe Orlando, editor.

We obtained a handful of vintage Weird War Tales when we bought a friend’s box of 70s and 80s DC Comics back in 2011, and they’ve been fun to read. They had some awesome Alex Nino artwork we dutifully scanned for posterity and learning. This one has one of our favorite covers from the lot, and we have a couple more issues we’ll take a look inside here.

Weird War Tales 24: The Invisible Enemy

18 Friday Jul 2014

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DC Comics, Ernie Chan, Ernie Chua, invisible enemy, Jack Oleck, Luis Dominguez, war, Weird War Tales

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Spirit tigers rock. Yes, it’s true: the dramatic storyline and sumptuously dark artwork make this story a real standout in DC’s anthology series, Weird War Tales. But what really sold us on this one? Spirit tigers! They bring to mind the mystical tiger spirit that watched over Kull the Conqueror and gave him increased power. Tiger goddess? Sign us up!

Weird War Tales #24 featured a second story, which we have in our sprawling archives of vintage Alex Niño comics here: The Last Battle.

Collector’s Guide: from Weird War Tales #24; DC Comics.

Cover art by Luis Dominguez. The Invisible Enemy: script by Jack Oleck, art by Ernie Chan as Ernie Chua. The Last Battle: script by Jack Oleck, art by Alex Niño. 32 pgs. Cover price $0.20.






Alex Niño: The Attack Goes on until Earth Is Wiped Clean of Life!

22 Thursday Dec 2011

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Alex Nino, Conquerors, Jack Oleck, occult, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.




Alex Niño’s Space Voyagers: Four Tombs!

14 Thursday Jul 2011

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Alex Nino, Four Tombs, Jack Oleck, Rima, Space Voyagers

Are you ready for some far-out adventure? Witness the Space Voyagers encounter a giant, evil alien from another planet in this classic short! Four Tombs is part one of a two-part adventure continued in The Delta Brain. Alex Niño artwork, from a Jack Oleck script.

We have a complete collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from Alex Niño’s out-of-print Satan’s Tears. If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño

Collector’s Guide: From Rima The Jungle Girl #1-5; DC Comics.



Four Tombs is part one of a two-part adventure continued in The Delta Brain.

Alex Niño: From This Day On, The World Is Yours!

25 Saturday Jun 2011

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in science fiction, war

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Alex Nino, Jack Oleck, Last Battle, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.




Alex Niño: We Can’t Kill Every Monster in This Blasted Jungle!

16 Thursday Jun 2011

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in dinosaur, jungle, science fiction, war

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Alex Nino, dinosaur, Jack Oleck, Lonely Road to Life, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.




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