Four-Star Battle Tales

    (DC, 1973)
DC

Four-Star Battle tales premiered in February, 1973. The early seventies were a time when war comics were enjoying a brief surge in popularity, particularly when mixed with supernatural elements as in Weird War Tales. Four-Star Battle Tales was fairly unspectacular, consisting entirely of old reprints featuring characters like Johnny Cloud from the Losers.

With the U.S. withdrawing from Viet Nam in mid-1973, it was perhaps not surprising that war comics did a quick fade in popularity. By the end of 1973, Four-Star Battle Tales had similarly disappeared following issue #5.
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  • 1
    Cover reprinted from All-American Men of War #94 (Nov-Dec 1962)
    Mar 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Robert Kanigher, Jeff Rovin, Bob Haney  ·  A: Irv Novick, Mort Drucker
    Reprints from All-American Men of War #94 (Nov-Dec 1962) and Star Spangled War Stories #73 (Sep 1958); Feb-Mar issue
    6 copies from $3.00
  • 2
    Cover reprinted from All-American Men of War #104 (Jul-Aug 1964)
    May 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Robert Kanigher, Jeff Rovin, Howard Liss  ·  A: Irv Novick, Russ Heath
    Reprints from All-American Men of War #104 (Jul-Aug 1964) and Our Army at War #196 (Aug 1968); Apr-May issue
    6 copies from $2.00
  • 3
    Cover reprinted from Star Spangled War Stories #132 (Apr-May 1967)
    Aug 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Bob Haney, Robert Kanigher  ·  A: Ross Andru, Mort Drucker
    Reprints; Reprints From Star Spangled War Stories #50 (Oct 1956), #83 (Jul 1959), and #90 (Apr-May 1960); Jul-Aug issue
    3 copies from $14.00
  • 4
    Oct 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Robert Kanigher, Bob Haney, Ed Herron, Allan Asherman  ·  A: Joe Kubert, Mort Drucker, Russ Heath
    Reprints from Our Army at War #30 (Jan 1955), #57 (Apr 1957), and #79 (Feb 1959); Sep-Oct issue
    2 copies from $11.00
  • 5
    Cover reprinted from Our Fighting Forces #51 (Nov 1959)
    Dec 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Dave Wood, Bob Haney, Allan Asherman  ·  A: Mort Drucker, Russ Heath, Bernie Krigstein
    Reprints from Our Army at War #11 (Jun 1953), #78 (Jan 1959), and G.I. Combat #72 (May 1959); Final issue; Nov-Dec issue
    6 copies from $1.25