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Weird War Tales 21

02 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in war

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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.

EC Comics: The Fossil!

16 Sunday Sep 2012

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in science fiction

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EC Comics, EC Comics reprints, fossil, Joe Orlando, Weird Fantasy

Joe Orlando hits another EC Comics home run with “The Fossil.” It’s a good thing we were not alive to read these in the 1950s, or we could have grown up terribly warped. We might have even turned into raving dinosaur-obsessed lunatics with a blog. Or some other hideous fate.

Oh… Wait…

Collector’s Guide: From Weird Fantasy #22; 1953, EC Comics. Reprinted 1998 by Gemstone.



EC Comics: The Automaton!

14 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in science fiction

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Automaton, EC Comics, EC Comics reprints, Joe Orlando, Weird Fantasy

This story reminds us of a lot of jobs we once had. But unlike our protagonist, we could actually quit — even if it meant living on ramen and rice for a month until we found more temp work. Enjoy this terrifying vision of modern society by Joe Orlando, in which we all serve the great machine, whether we want to or not.

Collector’s Guide: From Weird Fantasy #20; 1953, EC Comics; reprinted 1997 by Gemstone.




Alex Niño: No Escape from the Shadow of Death!

28 Tuesday Jun 2011

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in occult, war

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Alex Nino, Arnold Drake, Joe Orlando, Old Samurai Never Die, 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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