Weird War Tales 23

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Alfredo Alcala, Day After Doomsday, DC Comics, John Albano, Len Wein, Rich Buckler, war, Weird War Tales, weird war tales 23

 
Today, Weird War Tales #23 rises from the savage depths of the vintage DC Comics shortbox with a fairly famous two-page story by Len Wein and Rich Buckler: Day after Doomsday. The artwork by Alfredo Alcala in the opening story is also a worthy treat for the eyes.

Credits:
The Bird of Death script by John Albano, art by Alfredo Alcala. Day After Doomsday script by Len Wein, art by Rich Buckler. Corporal Kelly’s Private War script by George Kashdan, art by Alex Nino. NOTE: We have scans of Corporal Kelly’s Private War in our Alex Nino archives.

Here are both pages of Day After Doomsday for you!

 

Man-Thing: No Choice of Colors!

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Adventure into Fear, Essential Man-Thing, Fear, Jim Starlin, Man-Thing, Man-Thing Omnibus, No Choice of Colors, Rich Buckler, Steve Gerber

Whatever knows fear, blogs at the touch of Man-Thing! Here he is, Marvel’s mucky monstrosity in some of our favorite swamp stories. We bet you never knew injecting yourself with chemical mutagens and fatally wrecking your car would be so much fun!

Today’s Man-Thing memoir rises from the muck of Adventure into Fear. Man-Thing’s most famous writer Steve Gerber mans the helm, with a smashing art team of Jim Starlin and Rich Buckler.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #12 (a/k/a Adventure into Fear); Marvel, 1973.
– Reprinted in color in the Man-Thing Omnibus Hardcover; 2012.
– Reprinted in black and white in Essential Man-Thing TPB #1

Compulsion: College Kids Take on Spider-man!

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Blaze, Compulsion, Human Torch, Peter David, Rich Buckler, Spectacular Spider-man, Spider-man

“Super-heroes are a superstitious and cowardly lot!” Three bored Empire State University students create an imaginary villain called “Blaze” to harass Spider-Man. However, the prank goes too far!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-man #103. Marvel Comics, 1985.

Script by Peter David; Pencils and Inks by Rich Buckler and Armando Gil.