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40December 1955
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Star Spangled War Stories #40

DC · December 1955 · on sale 1955-10-25

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Identification plate

Series
Star Spangled War Stories (DC, 1952 series)
Issue
#40
Publication date
December 1955
Key date
1955-12-00
On-sale date
1955-10-25
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Desert Duel!cover1pencils: Irv Novick; inks: Irv Novick; letters: Ira Schnapp
2Desert Duel!comic story8script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Jerry Grandenetti; inks: Joe Giella
4Iceberg War!comic story6script: Bob Haney; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito
5Private Diarycomic story1script: Irwin Hasen; pencils: Irwin Hasen; inks: Irwin Hasen
6T.N.T. Trail!comic story6script: John Reed; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown
7Up-Periscope!text article2letters: typeset
9Private Battle!comic story6script: Ed Herron; pencils: Irv Novick; inks: Irv Novick
11How a Nation Is Born - Your United Nations at Workpublic service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer

Plus 5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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