1st Issue Special #8 (1975) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Mike Grell; inks: Mike Grell; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Mike Grell	Tara; Warlord [Travis Morgan]
2	Land of Fear!	comic story	18	script: Mike Grell; pencils: Mike Grell; inks: Mike Grell; letters: Ben Oda	Deimos (high priest of Thera); King of Thera; Tara; Warlord [Lt. Colonel Travis Morgan]
7	The Dossier on "Iron Mike"	text article	1	script: Mike Grell; pencils: Mike Grell; inks: Mike Grell	Mike Grell (self-portrait)
12	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita	The Tin Woodsman; Toto; Dorothy Gale; The Cowardly Lion; The Scarecrow

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Warlord #11	1978	On eBay ›
Warlord: The Savage Empire #[nn] ISBN 1-56389-024-0	1992	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents: Warlord #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2473-8	2009	On eBay ›
Comic Reader #121	1975	On eBay ›
DC's 1st Issue Specials #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-177-6	2020	On eBay ›

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