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DC Comics · Weird War Tales #92 · October 1980 · 50¢ · 100 pages
Grade: VF 8.0
Cover by Joe Kubert — signed.
The story teaser “Doomsday is Four Horsemen Come Riding...” sets the tone for what Weird War Tales was doing at its best in 1980 — war comics pushed into horror and apocalyptic territory, the battlefield as a place where reality goes wrong. Specific interior story titles and creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in our research; what is confirmed is that the Comics Code Authority stamp is present and the original cover price was 50 cents.
Weird War Tales ran from 1971 to 1983, a full 124 issues — one of DC's most durable Bronze Age anthology titles. By issue #92, the book had settled into a reliable groove of short war-horror hybrids, the kind of material that still holds up as a snapshot of what DC was doing with genre comics when Marvel had largely abandoned the format. Kubert on the cover is never incidental; his war art defined the visual language of the DC war line across decades.
Condition VF 8.0 — .
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Magazine Enterprises · A-1 Comics #2 · $0.10
Grade: VG- 3.5
A-1 Comics presented anthology stories spanning multiple genres in Magazine Enterprises' distinctive house style. Without access to verified story contents for this specific issue, we're focusing on what we know: this is early A-1 material from the classic 10-cent era, representing Magazine Enterprises' approach to anthology storytelling during the Golden Age.
Magazine Enterprises built their reputation on genre-hopping anthology titles, and the early A-1 Comics issues capture that experimental spirit from the publisher's formative years.
Condition VG- 3.5 — A classic reader. Some handling wear and stress, but the colors still pop and the structure is solid.. Noting: color breaking along the spine and top edge, diagonal crease visible in the bottom right corner of the front cover, and general edge wear consistent with handling. <
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Editrice Cenisio · Batman #1 · 1976 · L.300 (Italian Lire)
Grade: VG/F 5.0
Italian reprint edition published by Editrice Cenisio. Not an original DC publication. Cover carries the banners NUOVO! (New!) and DUE ADESIVI IN REGALO! (Two stickers as a gift!) — standard promotional language for the Italian newsstand market of the era.
This is an Italian-language reprint of DC Batman material, with all interior dialogue translated. The speech bubbles preserved here include “Sì, Batman... sono un assassino! Ed ecco la mia arma!” and “Ucci-dilo, Brutus!” — the latter a direct Italian rendering of a command to kill, placing this in action-oriented Batman content. The specific original DC issues reprinted here are not confirmed in available data.
Editrice Cenisio was one of several Italian publishers licensing DC content through the 1970s. Their Batman reprint series launched with this N.1 issue, targeting the Italian newsstand market at 300 Lire. Foreign DC reprints from this period — particularly first issues with promotional inserts like the sticker offer here — survive in decent condition less often than the domestic American printings. The sticker insert itself is almost never present.
Condition VG/F 5.0 — .
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Marvel Comics (Atlas) · Love Tales #43 · October 1954 · 10¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VG+ 4.5
Cover and interior credits for this issue are unconfirmed. Atlas romance titles of this period routinely ran uncredited house talent — writers and artists alike went unnamed in the indicia and on the splash pages.
Specific story titles, plot details, and creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in available reference sources. Love Tales was a multi-story romance anthology running short standalone pieces — typically three to four stories per issue — built around the familiar Atlas formula of romantic conflict, misunderstanding, and resolution. Cataloguing for mid-run Atlas romance issues at this level of granularity remains incomplete across standard reference databases.
Love Tales launched in 1949 under Timely and ran through 1957, making it one of Atlas's more durable romance titles. Issue #43 hits in October 1954 — the same month the Comics Code Authority was formally adopted. Whether this copy predates or postdates the CCA stamp on the cover is worth a look; that transition window matters to era collectors tracking the exact moment Atlas adjusted its content and presentation.
Condition VG+ 4.5 — .
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