Seriously: Hitler would FREAK if he knew. Go HERE.
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The “Circus of Madness”- now the official name for my last job/ workplace!
“Almost as good is the possibility that Hitler and Company – which sounds like a 1970s summer-replacement variety show in hell”
Thanks for bringing back something I’d rather have forgotten: Google “Heil Honey, I’m Home” if you dare. If you’re really brave, look it up on YouTube.
Who is the ringmaster?
I like how the ringmaster’s whip travels so fast it creates a flash of light. Hitler also looks constipated. Maybe he needs Laxatives…
Oy!!!
Given all the clenched teeth, I expect the Nazis to rise up in a shout of “Heil Grittler!”
And they’re not even looking at the circus act!
Herr Adolf Schickelgruber. hardly a name to inspire millions to dastardly mass murder. he’s lucky an uncle took him in.
Rat, I’ve got a worse show. “The Adolf Hitler Comedy Hour.” bandleader, Richard Wagner. their Grinder Girl really gets shredded.
A. Hitler looks like D. Letterman
Nazi-ating. Just Nazi-ating.
War comics were always kind of fun. Not as in the suffering and misery that humankind inflicts upon each other fun, but as in the preposterous storylines.
The Unknown Soldier was in close proximity to Hitler on numerous occasions, as were Nick Fury And His Howling Commandos, Sgt. Rock, and the crew of The Haunted Tank.
Preposterous as in ‘ I remember the time that I had my Tank’s turret aimed right at the the old paperhanger himself, but Hitler slipped on a banana peel and I missed. So close…
What year was this comic issued? Sixty cents seems a bit pricey. I never understood why comics never put the year on the cover dates.
Indiana Jones got his autograph in his fieldbook.
I never understood why comics never put the year on the cover dates.
For the benefit of stores that might like to keep ‘em on the spinner rack until they sold, I expect. If the prospective reader hasn’t seen Weird War Tales #114 before, then he hasn’t seen it before. But if he hasn’t seen Weird War Tales March 1973 before, and it’s now 1975, he might not want to buy an old comic.
@browniejr
“The Circus of Madness”, describes perfectly the power lust of the Federal Government. Not invoking Godwin, so calm down.
@Trogdor
I heartily agree… (btw- I wasn’t in the government, just a contractor TO the government. Perhaps the government is the Circus, being employed by a government contractor is the ‘Sideshow of Madness- just don’t get too close to the dog-faced boy- he bites!)
@hpoulter
Actually, it wasn’t his fieldbook, it was his Father’s Grail Diary!
“Nazis. I hate these guys”.
Reminds me of the age old question: with Superman battling Nazis, why not just have Superman go to Berlin, find Hitler and kill him. Then go to Tokyo & to the same to Tojo. End of the war. But sadly, things are never as simple as when you’re a kid.
OK, does anyone else think DC purposefully made AH look like J. Jonah Jameson, with the gritting teeth? A little poke at their rival perhaps?
“Seriously: Hitler would FREAK if he knew.”
I think Hitler was seriously freaked 24/7.
Yeah, he does kind of look like Jolly Jonah. Ya sure that wasn’t Marvel’s idea, only the other way around? Make the petty office tyrant look like Hitler?
He was busy fighting Ubermann.
Bob
I was ingesting a lot of DC back then, but that stirs no memories. “Weird War” was probably the most thankless title in the DC lineup. Rookie writers got stuck with it all the time. All things considered, the Haunted Tank, the Unknown Soldier, Gravedigger, and that Viking commando dude (forgot his name) were an improvement over the one-offs.
Is it me, or does the fellow in the foreground look suspiciously like Mr. Lileks himself? I’m just sayin’…
I had a German technology teacher in high school who looked exactly like Hitler, except he wore a leather jacket and didn’t have a mini-’stache.
I thought the art looked familiar in the preview; and I was right. I had this issue (and may still in the, er, archives). DCs war comics, including this and the Haunted Tank (an M4 Sherman haunted by the ghost of CSA General JEB Stuart) shown in GI Combat had some of the grittier tales that a ten year old could read. And the covers were always lurid.
And Hitler would freak out if he knew he had the same hair color as Superman….
According to Wikipedia, Weird War Tales (which surely I picked up at some point in my childhood, because it was totally my kind of thing) ran from 1971 to 1983, for a total of 124 issues. That would make this issue from its last year.
There’s a gallery of covers here. Nazis! Dinosaurs! Nazi dinosaurs! The Frozen Army of DEATH! Centaurs wielding machine guns! The March of the Mammoths!
But it doesn’t include #114. This fellow, however, reviews it. His review begins, Generally speaking, Weird War Tales #114 is not very good. But there are scans of some internal panels. Don’t miss the embarrassingly-named vampire.
@HunkyBobTX
I’m pretty sure the ringmaster is played by Tom Cruise.
I’m not at all sure what’s going on here – but I DO know that
Goebbels had no balls at all
(someone told me)
The comic has a UPC barcode, which, if my research is correct came about in the mid 1970′s. So I suppose it dates from that time. I remember MAD magazine made a big deal over it. They were always making fun of the UPC barcode on the covers.
One of the more interesting war comics of that era (Blitzkrieg, I think) followed three German soldiers around Europe and showed the war from their perspective. It was kind of different.
Ah, Weird War Tales. Somewhere, I still have the first issue. It wasn’t bad for the first year or so, but then it became dreadful. I wrote a letter to this effect, sometime around seventh grade, and WWT actually published it. My first appearance in print.
Wait — Dan DeCarlo used to ink Ross Andru for DC Comics? I did not know that. What a waste of Dan DeCarlo.
(Or was that some different DeCarlo? Was there a second one in the 1970s funnybook industry? Now I’m all confusimacated.)
For those of us who have no idea what this was all about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Commandos
And Yes. It WAS that bad:
* Warren Griffith – Warren was a simple farm boy who suffered from clinical lycanthropy. Project M gave him the ability to change into a true Werewolf.
* J.A.K.E. – The first G.I. Robot, destroyed itself and lost Atlantean colony.
* J.A.K.E. 2 – The second G.I. Robot. Lost in space with the Creature Commandos.
* Dr. Myrra Rhodes – Also known as Dr. Medusa. After inhaling strange fumes she grew snakes for hair and superficially resembled one of the Gorgons.
* Lt. Matthew Shrieve – Matthew was their team leader. He was a fully human hard as nails soldier.
* Pvt. Elliot “Lucky” Taylor – Lucky barely survived stepping on a mine. He was stitched back together against his will, he resembles the Frankenstein monster and has damaged vocal cords.
* Sgt. Vincent Velcro – Vincent volunteered for the project in order to commute a 30-year sentence in the brig for crippling an officer. Like a Vampire he can now change into a bat and requires human blood to survive.
Di…true…but Goering had two, but dya vere schmall.