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The Complete Skywald Checklist
This
index is as complete as possible given Skywald’s custom of often dropping
credits off stories, hiding credits in the art of the story {mostly under
Hewetson’s reign—in windowsills, gables, panel borders, as debris, etc.}, the
heavy use of pseudomyns & single names and the miscrediting of stories to
the wrong artist.
Many
of the mysteries regarding credits have been solved by access to Al Hewetson’s
notes & checklists as well as the extensive aid of Christos N. Gage. Check out the end of the bibliography for
interviews with Al Hewetson, Ed Fedory, Augustine
Funnell & Maelo Cintron. You’ll be
glad you did!
Nightmare
1. cover: Brendan Lynch? (Dec. 1970)
1) The Pollution Monsters [Mike Friedrich/Don Heck
& Mike Esposito] 10p
2) Master Of The Dead! [?/Martin Nodell &Vince Alascia] 6p [reprint from Eerie #14,
3) Dance Macabre [?/? & Bill Everett?] 6p [reprint from the 1950s]
4) Orgy Of Blood [Ross
Andru & Mike Esposito/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 8p
5) A Nightmare Pin-Up [Bill
Everett] 1p
6) The Skeletons Of Doom! [Art Stampler/Bill Everett] 3p [text story]
7) Help Us To Die! [?/?] 6p [reprint from the 1950s]
8) The Thing From
The Sea! [?/Wally Wood & Mike Esposito?] 7p [reprint from Eerie #2, Avon, 1951]
9) The Creature Within! [?/?]
3p [reprint from the1950s]
10) The Deadly Mark Of The Beast! [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Tom Palmer] 8p
11) Nightmares’s Nightmail [letters’
page] 1p
Notes: Publisher: Sol Brodsky &
2. cover: Boris Vallejo (Feb. 1971)
1) Children Of The Cold
Gods! [Ross Andru & Mike Esposito/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 10p
2) The Phantom Of Philip Hawks [?/A. C. Hollingsworth] 6p
[reprint from Diary Of Horror #1, Avon,
1952]
3) The Mirror Of
Death [?] 6p [reprint from Diary Of
Horror #1, Avon, 1952]
4) The Circle Of Circe! [
5) Nightmare Pin-Up #2 [Bill Everett] 1p
6) Time Stop [Art Stampler] 3p [text story]
7) Blood For The Vampire [?/Norman
Nodel & Vince Alascia] 8p [reprint
from Eerie #7, Avon, 1952]
8) The Massacre Of Mankind!
[?/?] 8p [reprint from the 1950s]
9) Pressed For Time [Marv Wolfman/Dan Adkins] 8p
Notes: Again there are no individual story credits but the authors’
list includes Wayne Benedict, Marv Wolfman, Mike Friedrich, Noel Haven, Ross
Andru & Mike Esposito, Gardner Fox & Phil Seuling. There are no artists’ credits. Again, there are three new stories and a new
pin-up. Best art & story go to the
intriguing little witchcraft tale ‘Pressed For
Time’. ‘Children Of
The Cold Gods!’ is a very odd
story. A letter to readers promises all
new stories beginning in the next issue.
Gardner Fox also wrote a story dealing with Circe for Warren around this
time period. I’m fairly sure that Wayne
Benedict & Noel Haven are house names and don’t actually exist.
3. cover: Boris Vallejo (Apr. 1971)
1) The Inner Man [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Dan
Adkins] 10p [Sutton’s story credited to
Sinclair Rich;
while his pencil art was credited
to Sean Todd]
2) The Victims [Gerry Conway/Rich Buckler] 6p
3) Vault Of A Vampire [Al
Hewetson/Serg Moren] 8p
4) When The Dawn Gods War!
[Gardner Fox/Paul Reinman & Mike Esposito] 8p
5) A Rottin’ Deal [Bruce Jones]
9p [story & art credited to Philip
Roland]
6) Horror Man [Art Stampler]
2p [text story]
7) Nightmare Pin-Up #2 [Chic
Stone] 1p
8) Soul Of
The Warlock [Chic Stone] 8p
9) Beware Small Evils! [Jack
Katz & Frank Giacoia/Jack Katz & Frank Giacoia] 10p [story credited to
Frank Voltaire]
10) Ad for Psycho #2 & The
Crime Machine #1 [on inside back cover]
Notes: All new stories begin. Many of the Warren artists appearing here,
mindful of Jim Warren’s 1969 edict that you couldn’t work for Warren & his B&W
competitors at the same time, used pseudonyms to hide their identities. That might have worked for writers but for
artists such as Sutton or Ernie Colon’s, the art styles were so distinctive
that it’s hard to see how Warren could have not known it was them. This was a fairly decent issue with the best
story & art going to Bruce Jones {hiding behind the name Philip Roland} for
his delightfully disturbed ‘A Rottin’ Deal’ while good work also appeared from
Tom Sutton, Al Hewetson, Serg Moren, Jack Katz & Frank Giacoia and Chic
Stone. The pin-up by Chic Stone is
listed as Nightmare Pin-Up #2 but it is actually #3 and one of the corpses
bursting out of their graves in the pin-up is clearly
4. cover: Harry Rosenbaum (June 1971) [cover is miscredited to Boris Vallejo]
1) Phantom Of The Rock Era
[Chuck McNaughton/Ralph Reese] 8p
2) Shoot-Out At Satan’s Coffin [Mike
Jennings/Jack Abel] 10p
3) The Mad Mind Doctor! [Chuck McNaughton/Dick Ayers
& Mike Esposito] 6p
4) A Nightmare Pin-Up [Bill Everett] 1p
5) Hag Of The Blood Basket!
[Al Hewetson/Tom Sutton] 16p [Sutton’s
art credited to Sean Todd]
6) A Living Death! [
7) The Horror On The Chapel
Wall [
8) Nightmare’s Nightmail [letter’s page] 1p
Notes: $.60 for 64 pages with the
issues now squarebound. Ads for the
never published Science Fiction Odyssey #1 appear. The delirious ‘Hag Of The
Blood Basket’, a clear forerunner of the Skywald ‘Horror-Mood’, featured the
best story & art. The lead character
in that story greatly resembled EC’s Old Witch!
There’s also good work from Chuck McNaughton, Ralph Reese, Bill Everett
& Tom Palmer. A
pretty good issue hidden behind a mediocre cover.
5. cover: Boris Vallejo (Aug. 1971)
1) The Man Who Became…Frankenstein! [Allan
Asherman/Harold Shull] 1p [frontis]
2) Slime World [Chuck McNaughton/Ralph Reese] 10p
3) Whence Stalks The
Werewolf [Len Brown/Carlos Garzon] 6p
4) Nightmare’s Nightmail [letter’s page; short bio
& photo of Boris Vallejo] 2p
5) The Doom Star! [Chuck McNaughton/Tom Sutton, Dan
Adkins & Ralph Reese] 10p [Sutton’s
pencils
credited to Sean Todd]
6) Great Men Of The Horror
Films: Boris Karloff [Allan Asherman] 4p
[text article w/photos]
7) Creature Of The Deep
[Chuck McNaughton/Jack Katz & Jack Abel] 12p
8) Nazi Death Rattle [Al Hewetson/Serg Moren] 9p
9) Within The Torture
Chamber [Kevin Pagan/Doug Wildey] 8p
10) back cover ads for
Hell-Rider #1; The Crime Machine #2 and the never published Science Fiction
Odyssey #1] 1p
Notes: More ads appear for the
aborted Science Fiction Odyssey. Best
story & art go to the excellent Parisian sewer tale, ‘Slime World’, by
Chuck McNaughton & Ralph Reese. Other
good work was done by Tom Sutton, Al Hewetson, Kevin Pagan, Doug
Wildey & Serg Moren. The
Pagan/Wildey story ‘Within The Torture Chamber’ is a
bondage/torture tale of exactly the sort that the Comics Code was established
to suppress.
6. cover: Jeff Jones (Dec. 1971)
1) Medea [Michael Kaluta]
1p [frontis]
2) Nightmare’s Nightmail [letter’s page; interview
with Jeff Jones] 2p
3) Love Witch And The
4) The Living Gargoyle [Jerry Siegal/Carlos Garzon]
6p
5) Broken Sparrow [Larry Todd] 6p
6) Great Men Of The Horror
Films: Boris Karloff, part 2 [Allan Asherman] 4p [text article w/photos]
7) Corpse By Computer!
[Robert Kanigher/Doug Wildey] 11p
8) The Cosmos Strain [Michael
Kaluta] 6p [story credited to Steve
Stern]
9) The Geek! [Pat Boyette] 6p
Notes: ‘The Love Witch’ is continued from Psycho #3 and has
several pages of its story printed out of sequence. ‘The Living Gargoyle’, written by Superman
creator Jerry Siegal, has nothing to do with the later Human Gargoyles’ series,
although the gargoyles are identical.
The Steve Stern name is believed to be a house name, although there was
a fan writer named that in the early 1970s.
It appears nowhere else, nor for any other company and it was used at
Skywald only twice, both time with artists closely related through their
fanzine work—Michael Kaluta & Jeff Jones.
When the Kaluta story was reprinted Kaluta received credit for both
story & art. Best art & story
belong to Pat Boyette’s ‘The Geek!’ with other good stories from Kaluta &
Larry Todd. Jeff Rovin interviews cover
artist Jeff Jones on the letters’ page.
7. cover: Pujolar (June 1972)
1) The Haunted Strangler [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos]
1p [frontis]
2) The Penitent [Ed Fedory/Ferran Sostres] 7p
3) Group Jeopardy [S. F. Starr/Amador Garcia] 6p
4) The Giant Death Rat [Al Hewetson/Serg Moren] 7p [story credited to
Howie Anderson]
5) Nightmare’s Nightmail [letter’s page] 2p
6) Gasp! [Donald Brown] 3p
7) FANtasia [Jeff Rovin] 1p [text article]
8) Dracula [Allan Asherman] 6p [text article w/photos]
9) The Altar Of Blood [Bob
Kirschen/Pablo Marcos] 7p
10) A Father’s Lament [Ed Fedory/Francisco Cueto] 9p
11) Artifacts [Dennis Fujitake] 4p
12) The Essential Horror [Al Hewetson/Ramon
Torrents] 8p
13) Mummy Pin-Up [Pablo Marcos]
1p [on back cover]
Notes: After a hiatus of several
months, brought on by the collapse of Skywald’s color line, the magazines
returned with some changes. Herschel
Waldman was now listed as Business Manager.
The issue number appears for the first time on the cover. A reader’s contest is announced with the
prize being the original art to Bill Everett’s pin-up from #1. Best story is Al Hewetson’s ‘The Giant Death
Rat’ while the best art belongs to Ferran Sostres’ ‘The Penitent’. A contract with the Spanish art agency S.I.
to provide artwork begins to push American artists out of the Skywald pages.
8. cover: Vicente Segrelles (Aug. 1972)
1) Andras: The Grand Marquis Of
Hell! [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p
[frontis]
2) Snow-Bound! [Ed Fedory/Felipe Dela Rosa] 8p
3) Hey Creep: Play The
Macabre Waltz [Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 6p
4) Nightmare’s Nightmail [letter’s page, letter from
Mrs. Julie Hewetson] 2p
5) Rot, Robin, Rot! [Al Hewetson/Dan Sevilla] 3p [story credited to Jay Wood]
6) The Tunnels Of Horror
[Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 8p
7) Satan’s Graveyard [Al Hewetson/Syd Shores &
Dan Adkins] 7p [Shore’s pencils
credited to Jim Elder]
8) Nightmare Movie Review: Tales From
The Crypt [Al Hewetson] 4p [text
article w/photos]
9) Hung Up [Bruce Jones] 10p
10) The Sting Of Death
[Chic Stone] 6p
11) The Weird And The
Undead [Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 7p
[story credited to Howie Anderson]
12) Ad for Psycho #8 [on inside back cover] 1p
13) Phantom Of The Opera
Pin-Up
[Pablo Marcos] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Al Hewetson is now listed as
Associate Editor. Best art is provided
by Bruce Jones on ‘Hung Up’ although Felipe Dela Rosa and Pablo Marcos also
deliver high quality work. Best story is
Hewetson’s ‘The Tunnels Of Horror’, which, like a
number of early Skywald stories, takes place in the sewers of
9. cover: Jose Mirelles (Oct. 1972)
1) Frontis & titlepage [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 2p
2) Markheim [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 7p from the story by Robert Louis
Stevenson [art credited to D.
Duran]
3) The Nightmare World Of
James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos]
3p from a dream by James Edgar
4) The Guillotine [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
5) Zoo For The Beasts Of
The Universe [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 2p
6) Lunatic Letters’ Page/Editorial [Al Hewetson] 2p
7) The Shoggoths: The
8) The Abominable Dr. Phibes [Al
Hewetson] 4p [text article w/photos]
9) The 300th Birth Day Party [Al
Hewetson/Ramon Torrents] 5p
10) The Gargoyle Trilogy [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
11) The Night In The Wax
Museum [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 8p [The
artist’s name was variously spelled
with one or two L’s. Since his work for Seaboard/Atlas was spelled
with 2 L’s, I’ve followed that
custom.]
12) Dracula [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p
13) The Beast Within [Al
Hewetson/Amador Garcia] 9p
14) Next Issue Ad [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p
15) The Thing In The Alley
[Al Hewetson/Berni Wrightson] 1p [text
story, on back cover.]
Notes: Al Hewetson is now full
Editor and it immediately shows in the many series debuts amid full horror-mood
themes. Mirelles’ cover is a striking image. Hewetson introduces a short-lived horror host
for Nightmare, who would later be named Mr. Pook. The contents page features the first mention
of the term “horror-mood’ in this title.
Maelo Cintron, one of the mainstays of the latter-day Skyward
artists, makes his professional debut.
‘Nightmare World’ began a semi-regular series in which readers sent in
their nightmare, which were then adapted into stories. Although the gargoyles in the story ‘The
Gargoyle Trilogy’ are drawn identically to those of the Human Gargoyle series
{whose first chapter was also drawn by Dela Rosa, appearing in Psycho #8 at
almost the same time as this appearance}, this story was not a part of that
series. The Shoggoths series begins,
with Hewetson using H. P. Lovecraft’s Shoggoths as villains, although the
stories themselves are new, not adaptations.
Hewetson’s Shoggoths didn’t physically resemble Lovecraft’s descriptions
either. This was also the first
appearance for the
10.
cover: Ken Kelly (Dec. 1972) [edited: Al Hewetson]
1) Mr. Pook’s Introduction [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 2p [frontis & titlepage]
2) Princess Of Earth! [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 7p
3) Nightmare Movie Review: Frogs [Al Hewetson/Berni
Wrightson & Pablo Marcos] 3p [text
article.]
4) The Funeral Barge [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinus] 7p
5) Satan’s Cellar [Al Hewetson/Ferrer Maitz] 6p
6) The Proverbial Killer [Doug Moench/Villanova]
7p
7) A Macabre Fact Of Life: Demonic Possession [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 4p
8) Game Of Skill [Joan Cintron/Maelo
Cintron] 1p [story credited to Kinsman]
9) The Nightmare World Of
Trisha Hamlin Of
Hewetson/Lara] 4p from a dream by Trisha Hamlin
10) Black Communion [Ed Fedory/Felipe Dela Rosa] 8p
11) …Slither Into The
Concocted Lunacy Of The Astonishing Horror-Mood Within This Noxious
Nightmare Number 10… [Al
Hewetson/Ernie
[text article/editorial]
12) The Human Gargoyles, part 2: 1 And 1 Equals 3
[Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
13) Ad For Psycho #10 [Al Hewetson, on inside
back cover] 1p
Notes: Herschel Waldman now listed as co-publisher. The ‘Horror-Mood’ phase makes its first cover
appearance. The letters’ page features
illos by Basil Wolverton, who Hewetson said inspired his use of alliteration,
and Ernie Colon. The Human Gargoyles
serial, which had debuted in Psycho #8, moves to Nightmare, with Maelo Cintron
now the artist. The lead character’s
looks and his dialogue in ‘The Proverbial Killer’ were clearly modeled on
director Woody Allen! Wrightson’s art
for the movie review was also originally intended as a spot illo for the
aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1. The
Cintron one pager ‘Game Of Skill’ was Cintron’s sample
page, which Sol Brodsky had brought before returning for Marvel. Best story was Ed Fedory’s ‘Black Communion’
while the best art belonged to Juez Xirinius’ dynamic, moody art for ‘The
Funeral Barge’. Good work was also
supplied by Maelo Cintron, Felipe Dela Rosa, Al Hewetson, Doug Moench and Pablo
Marcos.
11.
cover: Jose Antonio Domingo (Feb. 1973) [Credited to JAD]
1) Mr. Pook’s Introduction [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 2p [frontis & titlepage]
2) The Wetness In The Pit
[Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 5p
3) Taw!!! [Ed Fedory/Antonio Borrell] 6p
4) Lon Chaney, Sr. in The
Phantom Of The Opera [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p
5) Nightmare World: The Beasts Of
Mike Black
6) Where Gods Once Stood [T. Casey Brennan/Carlos
Garzon] 6p
7) Corridors Of Caricature
[Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 7p
8) Man-Bat [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p [looks quite a lot like DC’s Man-Bat!]
9) Letters-Editorial Page: Doug Moench Profile [Al
Hewetson/Jay Lynch] 2p [text article
w/photos]
10) The Shoggoths: Where Are The Inhabitants Of
Earth? [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 10p
11) Titan Weep [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 3p
12) Nightmare Movie Macabre Reviews: The Classics
[Al Hewetson] 5p [text article
w/photos]
13) The Horror War [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell]
9p
14) Ad for Psycho #11 [on inside back cover—features
the Heap] 1p
Notes: Pablo Marcos was listed as
Art Director for this issue only. The
lead character in ‘The Wetness In The Pit’ is based on
Skywald publisher Herschel Waldman. ‘The
Horror War’ includes Richard Nixon as a character and featured a photo of Nixon
taken by Hewetson himself. Neither a particularly good issue, nor a particularly bad one. The all original Nightmare 1973
Winter-Special appeared between this issue & #12.
12.
cover: Vicente Segrelles (Apr. 1973)
1) Nightmare In The House
Of Poe [Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 13p
2) Premature Burial [Al
Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
3) Kiss Of The Vampires
[Chic Stone] 9p
4) I Am Dead: I Am Buried! [Al Hewetson/Villanova]
10p
5) The Night Of The
Corpse-Bride [Doug Moench/Villanova] 7p
6) Screaming Scrawlings: Editorial-Letters’ Page:
Herschel Waldman Profile [Al Hewetson] 2p
[text
article]
7) The Assassin-Bug [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 9p
8) Monster, Monster On The
Wall! [Augustine Funnell/Pablo Marcos] 4p
Notes: Augustine Funnell makes his professional debut
with ‘Monster, Monster On The Wall’. That story was originally intended as a stand
alone story but Hewetson persuaded Funnell to continue it as a series. Chic Stone’s ‘Kiss Of The
Vampires’ was probably done in 1971.
‘Nightmare in The House Of Poe’ features the
best art, by Ferran Sostres, although Pablo Marcos, Juez Xirinius and Antonio
Borrell also delivered good work. Best
story is Hewetson’s adaptation of Poe’s classic ‘Premature Burial’.
13.
cover: Vicente Segrelles (June 1973)
1) …The Corpse-Feast! [Ed Fedory/Juez Xirinius]
1p [frontis]
2) At Mind’s Edge [Ed Fedory/Jesus Duran] 6p
3) Curse Of The Werewolf
[Ed Fedory/Villanova] 1p
4) …Die Little Spider! [Al Hewetson/Fernando Rubio]
4p [story credited to Stuart Williams]
5) The Mad Nightmare World Of
H. P. Lovecraft [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
6) …Only The Wretched Die Young… [Al
Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 9p [story
credited to Ricardo
Villamonte]
7) Editorial Page: Syd Shores
Profile [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
8) The Corpse [Al
Hewetson/Francisco Cueto] 10p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
9) Frankenstein 1973 [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 9p [story credited to Earle Leroy]
10) Nightmare Movie Review: Ben & Willard [Al
Hewetson] 5p [text article w/photos]
11) The Human Gargoyles, part 3: Only The Strong Shall Survive [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
12) Psycho Ad [various] 1p [on inside back cover]
13) Scream Ad [?] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Segrelles’ cover is particularly dynamic and
is probably the best single cover that Skywald ever published. The letters’ page features a photo of
14.
cover: Villanova (Aug. 1973)
1) The Easter Island Things [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 1p [frontis]
2) The Diary Of An Absolute
Lunatic [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 10p
3) A Wretched Bunch Of Letters/editorial [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
4) The Plastic Plague [Jack
Katz] 8p
5) Death Of The 80th
Victim! [Doug Moench/Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
6) …Werewolf… [Ed Fedory/Juez Xirinius] 1p
7) …And The Corrupt Shall
Dine! [Ed Fedory/Fernando Rubio] 5p
8) Charles Laughton: Scream Screen Scenes [Al
Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 2p
9) Starchild [Bruce Jones]
6p
10) The Creature From The
Black Lagoon [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 2p
11) The Butchered At
Earth’s Core! [Ed Fedory/Jesus Suso Rego] 7p
12) The Human Gargoyles, part 4: And They Did Battle
With The Thing From Underneath [Al
Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. Villanova’s cover is rather noteworthy as it
is in paneled comic form and actually is a separate story in its own
right. Bruce Jones’ story ‘Starchild’
was done in 1971 and originally intended for the aborted Science Fiction
Odyssey. It features the best art in
this issue and is also a very good story.
Best story, however, goes to Al Hewetson’s great ‘The Diary Of An Absolute Lunatic’, which could almost be a poster
child for the ‘Horror-Mood’. Good work
also appears from Maelo Cintron, Felipe Dela Rosa, Ricardo Villamonte, Doug
Moench, Jesus Suso Rego, Ed Fedory & Fernando Rubio. A photo of Ricardo Villamonte appears on the
letters’ page.
15.
cover: Ken Kelly (Oct. 1973)
1) How They Killed The
Chicago Vampiress [Ed Fedory/Emilio Bernardo] 1p [frontis]
2) Dracula Did Not Die! [Al Hewetson/Antonio
Borrell] 9p
3) The Gargoyle Who Went To War [Al
Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 2p
4) Nightmare Movie Review:
Theatre Of Blood [Al Hewetson] 4p [text
article w/photos]
5) The Truth Behind The
Myths About Bats…Particularly Vampire Bats [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez]
2p
6) The Kid And The Killer And The
Bum Rap [Al Hewetson/Francisco Cueto] 6p
[story credited to Joe
Westmuller]
7) Tapestry Of Blood! [Ed
Fedory/Fernando Rubio] 7p
8) A Wretched Bunch Of
Letters/Editorial: Felipe Dela Rosa Profile [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article
w/photos]
9) The Shoggoths: The Grotesque Green Earth [Al
Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 11p
10) …Ravings Of The Damned!
[Ed Fedory/Juez Xirinius] 8p
11) The Human Gargoyles, part 5: Once Upon A Time In Alabama: A Horror [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 9p
12) Psycho Ad [various] 1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: Al Hewetson & Zesar
Lopez appear as protagonists in the Shoggoth story. Best story is Hewetson’s ‘The Kid And The Killer And The Bum Rap’ while the best art is
Rubio’s ‘Tapestry Of Blood!’
16.
cover: Jose Antonio Domingo (Dec. 1973) [Credited to JAD]
1) The Voodoo Dead [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 7p [story credited to
Joe Dentyn]
2) The Werewolf Macabre: The Birth Of A Beast [Al
Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 9p
3) The Werewolf Macabre: Dragnet: Werewolf [Al
Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 9p
4) When The Devil Sent Us Death! [Augustine
Funnell/Maro Nava] 5p
5) The Ghoul Out Of Hell
[Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 2p [text
story]
6) A Wretched Bunch Of
Letters: Editorial: Antonio Borrell Profile [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell]
2p
[text
article]
7) The Roots Of Evil [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 10p [story credited
to Howie Anderson.]
8) I Am Legend Review [Augustine
Funnell/Gene Day] 2p [text article]
9) The Vampyre! [Ed Fedory/Pablo
Marcos] 9p
10) Hell Hath No Face [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte] 6p [story credited to
Harvey Lazarus]
11) Human Gargoyles Ad [Vicente
Segrelles] 1p [on back cover, never
published cover in B&W]
Notes: ‘The Roots Of Evil’ was originally intended as the cover story for
Scream #1. Ed Fedory’s story ‘The
Vampyre’ was originally entitled ‘Nosferatu’ but was changed due to the
Nosferatu serial that had begun running in Scream. The back cover advertises a special ‘Human
Gargoyles’ magazine {with a Vicente Segrelles cover} that was never
published. It was intended as a one-shot
magazine that would reprint all the Gargoyle chapters that had appeared thus
far. Best artwork here belongs to Suso
Rego’s work on the second half of ‘The Werewolf Macabre’. Best story is ‘Hell Hath No Face’.
17.
cover: Sebastia Boada (Feb. 1974)
1) The End Of all Vampires [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso
Rego] 10p [story credited to Howie
Anderson]
2) Wretched Nightmare
Letters/Editorial [Al Hewetson] 2p
[text article]
3) The Vampire Out Of Hell [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 10p [story credited to Edward Farthing]
4) The Night In The
Horror-Hotel [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 7p
[story credited to Stuart Williams]
5) An Exclusive Interview With
Christopher ‘Dracula’ Lee [Christopher Lee & Al Hewetson] 8p [text
article w/photos]
6) The Psycho [Al Hewetson/Ruben Sosa] 10p
7) The Inquisition [Al Hewetson/Lombardia] 4p [story credited to Joe Dentyn]
8) The Autobiography Of A
Vampire, Chapter 1 [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 10p
9) The Lunatic Creations Of Edgar Allan Poe [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Sebastia Boada’s makes his
Skywald debut with a strikingly erotic cover.
The letters’ page promised an upcoming interview with Vincent Price that
never appeared. ‘Autobiography Of A Vampire’ continued in Scream #5.
18.
cover: Jose Antonio Domingo (Apr. 1974) [Credited to JAD. Special issue featuring the 7 Tales Of The Man-
Macabre]
1) The Vampire [Al
Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 8p [art
miscredited to Cesar Lopez]
2) The Werewolf [Al
Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 11p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
3) The Archaic Horror Mailbag
[Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
4) The Creep [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 10p
5) The Dead Things [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte] 2p [story credited to
Stuart Williams]
6) The Vulture [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 12p [story credited to Joe Dentyn]
7) The Ancient One [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 7p [story credited to
Howie Anderson]
8) The Thing In The Space
[Al Hewetson/Emilio Bernardo] 10p
[story credited to Harvey Lazarus]
Notes: JAD’s cover is particularly
good. With the exception of ‘The Ancient
One’, all the stories in this issue were grouped together as part of ‘The 7
Tales Of The Man-Macabre’. Al Hewetson introduces the first story &
the issue as a whole. ‘The Thing In The Space’ is a takeoff on Lewis Carroll’s Alice In
Wonderland. Jesus Suso Rego was probably
the best single artist that Skywald had during Hewetson’s tenue {although Maelo
Cintron was a strong presence as well}.
It’s strange he didn’t achieve more fame here in the states. His women were beautiful but realistic, his
pacing & storytelling top notch and his pages looked great. His artwork again is the best in this
issue. Although the use of the multiple
pseudonyms tried to mask it, this was an all Hewetson authored issue and the
stories are all generally quite good.
19.
cover: Sebastia Boada (June 1974)
1) Horror Fragments: The Hell Hounds Of The
Baskervilles [Al
Hewetson/ Ferran Sostres] 1p
[frontis]
2) What The Hell Is Dracula
Doing Alive And Well In 1974? [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 9p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
3) Horror Preview Contest
[Ricardo Villamonte] 1p [fill in the
word balloons contest]
4) The Archaic Horror Mailbag
[Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
5) William Wilson [Al
Heweston/Alphonso Font] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Shoggoths: The Vault [Al
Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 10p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
7) The Great Classic Monster-Men
[Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
8) Tales Out Of Hell: The Kingdom Of
The Dead [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 10p
9) The Autobiography Of A
Vampire, part 3: My Tomb Is My Castle [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte]
10p
10) The Human Gargoyles, part 6: The Human Gargoyles
vs. The United States Of America [Al
Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
Notes: A voice balloon contest was
begun, in which readers were encouraged to fill in empty dialogue balloons from
a Ricardo Villamonte illustrated page.
Al Hewetson & Jose Cardona appeared in the Shoggoth story, despite
the fact that ‘Howie Anderson’ supposedly wrote the story. ‘Howie Anderson’ was one of Hewetson’s many
pseudonyms and was so popular with readers that he got his own fan mail. ‘Tales Out Of Hell’
continued in Scream #10. ‘The
Autobiography Of A Vampire’ is continued from Scream
#5. Best art is from Maelo Cintron. Best story is the Shoggoth tale.
20.
cover: Sebastia Boada (Aug. 1974)
1) Horror Fragments: The Demon Whale [Al
Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 1p [frontis]
2) The Shoggoths: The Scream And The Nightmare [Al
Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 20p
3) The Archaic Horror Mailbag
[Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
4) Wanted: …More Dead Than Alive… [Al
Hewetson/Emilio Bernardo] 12p [story
credited to Howie
5) A Tale Of Horror [Al
Hewetson/Luis Collado] 10p
6) The Black Cat [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte]
5p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
7) The Castle [Al Hewetson/John Byrne & Duffy
Vohland] 2p
8) The Human Gargoyles, part 8: I, Gargoyle [Alan
Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
9) Ad for Psycho 1974 Yearbook [Steve
Hickman] 1p [on inside back cover] art reprinted from Psycho
#2 (Mar. 1971)
Notes: At the end of the Shoggoth
story, Hewetson announces the start of a planned expedition to travel beneath
the earth to locate and battle the Shoggoths.
The reader was encouraged to send in 15 cents to receive a Shoggoth
Crusade certificate, signed by Hewetson & others, making the reader a
member of the expedition! Both Hewetson
& Cardona appear in the story, while publisher Herschel Waldman has a
cameo. The letters’ page included a new
reader’s questionnaire. It also
announces that ‘The Heap’ will be returning with story & art by Duffy
Vohland & Don Maitz. That plan was
abandoned. The first page of ‘Wanted:
More Dead Than Alive’ featured a wanted poster that
was a photo of Al Hewetson in a sombrero.
John Byrne made his professional debut on ‘The Castle’. During the Human Gargoyles’ story, the
Gargoyles appear on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon! Best story and art is for Al Hewetson &
Luis Collado’s superb WWII horror story, ‘A Tale Of
Horror’, one of the best Horror-Mood stories published. Collado’s beautiful penciled artwork is
particularly noteworthy.
21.
cover: Jose Mirelles (Oct. 1974)
1) Let Her Rot In Hell [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona]
10p
2) The Slither Slime Letters’ Page/Editorial [Al
Hewetson] 2p [text article]
3)
1971)
4) The Cosmos Strain [Michael
Kaluta] 6p reprinted from Nightmare #6
(Dec. 1971)
5) Comes
The Stalking Monster! [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Syd Shores] 5p reprinted from Psycho #4
(Sept. 1971)
6) Sleep [Jeff Jones] 5p reprinted from Psycho #6 (May 1972)
7) Corpse By Computer [Robert Kanigher/Doug
Wildey] 11p reprinted from Nightmare #6
(Dec. 1971)
8) Sand Castles [Ed Fedory/Pablo Marcos] 14p reprinted from Psycho #6 (May 1972)
Notes: The cover states that this
is the 1974 Nightmare Summer-Special.
Only the titlepage states that this is also #21. This is largely a reprint issue with only one
new story, ‘Let Her Rot In Hell’, but it is a good
one. Cardona delivered what was probably
his best art job for Skywald. The
letters’ page mentions several never published stories that Jesus Suso Rego was
to illustrate, including ‘Screaming Bloody Murder’ and ‘Killer Fu Manchu’ {a 20
page story with Fu Manchu vs. Dracula} as well as the news that Suso would be
taking over the Darkkos Mansion serial.
22.
cover: Faba (Dec. 1974)
1) The Mood-Team Undertakers [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 1p [frontis, portrays Maelo
Cintron, Zesar
Lopez, Ed Fedory, Cesar
Lopez, Jesus Duran, Al Hewetson & Augustine Funnell]
2) Tomb Of Horror
Introduction [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 2p
3) The Tales Of The
Vulture: The Bat—Mercy, Mercy Cries The Monster [Al Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri]
10p
4) Tomb Of Horror Editorial
Page [Al
Hewetson/Ernie Puchades] 2p [text
article w/photos]
5) When I Was A Boy I Watched The Blood-Wolves!
[Augustine Funnell/Jose Cardona] 6p
6) Kill, Kill, Kill, And
Kill Again [Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 7p
7) My Soul Is In Hell [Al Hewetson/Gene Day] 2p [text article]
8) The War Of The
Hell-Damned! [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 10p
9) The Coxsackie-Axe Murder [Ed Fedory/John Agras]
9p
10) Daughter Of Darkness Ad [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron]
1p [Advertises a Cintron husband/wife
teamup on an upcoming story.]
11) Tales Of
Evil Ad [?] 1p [ad for an
upcoming special or series]
12) The Mummy Khafre: The Funeral [Al Hewetson/Cesar
Lopez] 10p
13) Learn To Die In The
Tomb Of Horror [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 1p
[on back cover]
Notes: Misdated Oct. 1974.
It should be the Dec. 1974 issue.
The error probably occurred when this issue was intended to be #21 and
was bumped back for the special reprint issue.
In 1974, Skywald had planned a new magazine—the Tomb Of Horror—but it
was decided that the stands were too crowded to launch a new book at the time,
so the contents were repackaged as this issue, which was billed as the ‘Tomb Of
Horror’ Special Edition. However,
Hewetson makes it clear to the readers that this is a ‘pilot’ issue, meaning
that if the demand was there, Tomb Of Horror could
still see the light of day. The question
was rendered moot as the entire Skywald line folded with a couple of
months. Tomb Of
Horror’s kick was to have the authors & artists introduce the stories,
instead of the usual EC/Warren/Web Of Horror type horror hosts. The editorial page featured photos of Hewetson,
Augustine Funnell, Ed Fedory & Maelo Cintron as well as art by Ernie
Puchades. The artist Jose Martin Sauri
has created a bit of confusion over the last few years. He was always listed in the Skywald magazines
as either Robert or Bob Martin. One of
his splash pages was signed Martin Sauri and when I did the first version of
this checklist, that was the name I listed for
him. When Al Hewetson sent me his
checklist, he had his name listed as Roberto Martinez and, assuming that Al
would know his name, I changed my listings.
Later, the Warren Companion listed him as Josep Martin Sauri and
mentioned that he was listed as Paul Martin in the Skywald books, which was
incorrect as well. I finally tracked
down a modern art listing for him {including new comic pages} where his name
was listed as Jose Martin Sauri and that is the name I am currently
listing. Best story here is Ed Fedory’s
‘The Coxsackie-Axe Murders’. Coxsackie
was his hometown at the time. Best
artwork is Ferran Sostres’ work on ‘Kill, Kill, Kill, And Kill Again’, by
Hewetson {besides the great story, that title was a great ‘Horror-Mood’
title!}.
23.
cover: Maelo Cintron & Vicente Segrelles/frontis:
Gene Day (Feb. 1975)
1) The Human Gargoyles, part 9: The Human Gargoyles
vs. The Human Dead [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 9p [story never concluded]
2) The Human Gargoyles cover
[Vicente Segrelles] 1p [B&W repo of
a future [never published] cover
featuring the Human Gargoyles.]
3) Nightmare Mailbag [Jose
Martin Sauri] 1p [text article &
letters’ page]
4) The Fiend Of
5) Tradition Of
The Wolf [Ed Fedory/Josep Martin Sauri] 8p
6) Death Walk! [Ed Fedory/Jose
Cardona] 8p [art credited to Andy
Crandon]
7) Time For Living, Time For
Dying [Al Hewetson/Gene Day] 2p [text
story]
8) The Vampire Freaks [Al Hewetson/Paul Pueyo] 6p [story
credited to William Davie, art credited to
Stan
Connerty]
9) The Thing In The Ragged
Mountains [Al Hewetson/Amador Garcia] 7p
[story credited to Ted
Freeman, art credited to
Walter Fortiss]
10) Fistful Of
Flesh [Al Hewetson/Folsengo Cabrerizo] 5p [story credited to Leslie Jerome, art
credited to
Denis Ford]
11) Snakewizard! [Augustine Funnell/Jose Cardona] 8p
12) Werewolf graphic novel ad [Jose Martin Sauri]
1p [on back cover.]
Notes: Final issue. $1.00 for 64 pages. The cover identifies this as the 1975
Nightmare Winter Special. Only the
titlepage identifies it as #23.
Segrelles painted the actual cover while Citron painted the cover
insert. The Human Gargoyles story was
originally intended for the Human Gargoyles Special advertised in Nightmare
#16. A house ad again shows the
Segrelles cover advertised for that special, but that cover was now planned for
use on a special Human Gargoyles issue of Nightmare {obviously never
released}. The letters’ page announces
that Hewetson & Sanho Kim’s ‘The Fiend Of
Changsha’ would continue in Psycho #24, thanks to reader demand. The Werewolf ad on the back cover advertised
a graphic novel that never appeared.
‘Tradition Of The Wolf’ is remarkable largely for
the extraordinary number of art swipes in it.
Backgrounds appear to be lifted wholescale from various Esteban Maroto
stories, while foreground characters are lifted from Maroto & Frazetta
stories done for Warren Publications, especially Frazetta’s ‘Werewolf’ from
Creepy #1. The back pages had the debut
of a 5-page ad section called ‘The Little Horror-Mood Shop Of Horrors’—a
catalog of novelty items such as Warren’s Captain Company ads displayed. A quite striking cover was done for the
intended next issue {the art is unidentified but could be by either
Sebastia Boada, the mysterious Martin Poll or Faba} which was to feature
the Town Of
Psycho
1. cover: Brendan Lynch (Jan. 1971)
1) The Skin And Bones
Syndrome! [Roger Elwood/Gray Morrow] 8p
2) The Glistening Death [?/Martin
Nodell & Vince Alascia] 6p
reprinted from City Of
#1,
3) I Painted Only Terror! [?/?]
6p reprinted from Eerie #5,
4) Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery No. 1: The Mirror
[Steve Hickman] 1p [pin-up]
5) The Thing In The Mirror [?/Everett Raymond Kinstler] 6p reprinted from The Phantom Witch Doctor
#1,
6) The Steps In
The Cellar! [Art Stampler/?] 4p [text
story]
7) …And Then There’s
8) Anatomical Monster [?/A. C. Hollingsworth] 7p
reprinted from Eerie #11, Avon, 1953
9) The Hands Of
Death! [?/Norman Nodel? & Vince
Alascia?] 7p
reprint from Eerie #9, 1952?
10) The Gruesome Faces Of
Mr. Cliff! [Len Wein?/Mario Acquaviva?] 8p
Notes: Publisher: Sol Brodsky &
2. cover: Hector Varella (Mar. 1971)
1) The Heap [Chuck McNaughton/Ross Andru & Mike
Esposito] 10p
2) To Laugh…Perchance To Live! [Chuck
McNaughton/Jack Katz & Rich Buckler] 9p
3) Death’s Stranger [Marv Wolfman/Tom Palmer] 8p
4) Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery #2: The Vampire [Steve
Hickman] 1p [pin-up]
5) Revolution! [written:
Rich Margopoulos/Tom Sutton & Dan Adkins] 8p [story credited to Rick Poulos
& penciling credited to
Sean Todd]
6) The Quest! [Rich
Margopoulos/Chic Stone] 8p [story
credited to Rick Poulos]
7) Dream Planet [Phil Seuling/Serg Moren] 8p
8)
Notes: The start of all new stories. Skywald’s first series, ‘The Heap’ began,
featuring the origin and first appearance of Skywald’s most popular continuing
character. Among
readers, anyway. Hewetson himself
hated the character. One issue of a
color comic featuring the character was also produced by Skywald, with Robert
Kanigher scripting & the team of Tom Sutton & Jack Abel
illustrating. This Heap is not the same
character that Hillman published in the 1940s-1950s or that Eclipse revived in
the 1980s, although some similarities exist.
Skywald’s Heap is particularly gross looking, often resembling a blob of
phlegm. The best story here would
probably be either ‘To Laugh…Perchance To Live!’ or ‘
3. cover: Boris Vallejo (May 1971)
1) Frankenstein, Book II: Chapter One [Tom
Sutton/Tom Sutton & Dan Adkins] 12p
[story & penciling
credited to Sean Todd]
2) A Coffin For Captain
Cutlass [
3) The Heap: The Heap Meets The Horror Master!
[Chuck McNaughton & Ross Andru/Ross Andru &
Mike Esposito] 15p
4) Psycho Delivery [letters’ page] 1p
5) Gruesome Crewcut! [Chic Stone] 3p
6) The Man Who Stole Eternity [
7) The Love Witch [Marv Wolfman/Ernie Colon]
11p [art is credited to Jack Purcell]
Notes: Skywald’s continuation of
Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein began, with Sutton’s storyline taking place
directly after the events in her novel.
The Frankenstein monster is also cover featured, with a striking cover
by
4. cover: Ken Kelly (Sept. 1971)
1) The Innsmouth Apparition
[Larry Todd] 1p [frontis]
2) The Heap: Night Of Evil!
[Ross Andru/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 10p
3) Out Of Chaos…A New Beginning [Marv Wolfman/Rich
Buckler] 10p
4) Museum Piece [Len Wein/Serg Moren] 7p
5) Comes The Stalking Monster! [Tom
Sutton?/
Todd, art credited to David
Cook]
6) Psycho Delivery [letters’ page] 2p
7) Behind The Planet Of The
Apes [Allan Asherman/?] 4p [text
article with storyboard art]
8) Escape [Dennis Fujitake] 2p
9) Plague Of Jewels [Bruce
Jones] 10p
10) Frankenstein, Book II: Freaks Of
Fear! [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Jack Abel] 10p [story & pencils
credited to Sean Todd]
11) The Heap Pin-Up [Bill
Everett] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: First squarebound
issue. Editorial Assistant: Helen
Rudin. Tom Sutton, who wrote and
penciled ‘Comes The Stalking Monster’, often used
pseudonyms, presumably to avoid getting into trouble with Jim Warren, for whom
Sutton also worked, and who was legendary for unleashing his wrath on
freelancers who worked for the ‘enemy’.
In this case, for penciling, Sutton used the name “David Cook”. For writing it is likely he meant to use his
old standby ‘Sean Todd’ but a mix-up credited it to Larry Todd, who was {and
is} a real, separate writer-artist. The
Wolfman/Buckler ‘Out Of Chaos…’ was a two-parter {concluded in the next issue}
that was particularly good and provides the best story & art this issue,
although Sutton’s work on Frankenstein, Book II and Bruce Jones’ on ‘Plague Of
Jewels’ also delivered very good stories & art. Dennis Fujitake made his professional debut
here and was warmly received.
5. cover: Boris Vallejo (Nov. 1971)
1) A Psycho Scene [Bill Everett]
1p [frontis, pin-up]
2) Let The Dreamer Beware
[Jerry Siegel & Ralph Reese] 7p
3) Power Of The Pen! [Doug
Moench/Doug Wildey] 9p
4) Psycho Delivery [letters’ page, includes a pencil
sketch by
5) The Psycho-Analyst [Jeff
Rovin] ½p [text article w/photo]
6) The Heap: Cavern Of Doom [Ross Andru/Ross Andru
& Mike Esposito] 10p
7) The Vampire [Allan Asherman]
4p [text article w/photos]
8) The Unholy Satanists [Al Hewetson/Serg Moren] 8p
9) Out Of Chaos…A New Beginning, part 2 [Marv
Wolfman/Rich Buckler] 10p
10) Frankenstein, Book II: The Sewer Tomb Of Le Suub! [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Jack Abel] 10p
[story
& pencils credited to Sean Todd]
11) Ad for Nightmare #6 [Jeff
Jones] 1p [on inside back cover,
B&W repo of next issue’s cover]
12) Ad for Hell-Rider #3 [on
back cover, this magazine was never published]
Notes: $.60 for 64 pages. Helen Rudin’s last issue as
Editorial Assistant. Boris
Vallejo turns in his last and best Skywald cover. Future artists John Workman & Duffy
Vohland send in letters. Jeff Rovin’s column,
‘The Psycho-Analyst’ interviews Al Hewetson.
The back cover contains an ad for the never published Hell-Rider #3, and
shows the intended cover art by Gray Morrow.
In the story ‘Power Of The Pen’, the lead
characters are modeled on
6. cover: Vicente Segrelles (May 1972) [Jeff Rovin is listed as Assistant Editor.]
1) Psycho’s Supernatural Series: Abrasax [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p [frontis]
2) The Vow! [Pat Boyette] 7p
3) The Midnight Slasher [Doug Moench/Pablo Marcos]
6p
4) Sleep [Jeff Jones] 5p [story credited to Steve Stern]
5) Psycho Delivery [letters’ page] 1½p
6) The Psycho-Analyst [Jeff Rovin] ½p [text article w/photo]
7) The Heap: Dark Victory [Ross Andru/Ross Andru
& Pablo Marcos] 8p
8) The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad [Jeff Rovin/photos:
Allan Asherman] 2p [text
article w/photos]
9) Of A Sudden Is Thy Death! [Gus St. Anthony] 2p
10) Frankenstein, Book II: The Phantom Of The Opera [Tom Sutton] 10p [story & art credited to Sean
Todd]
11) Sand Castles [Ed Fedory/Pablo Marcos] 14p
12) Ad for Nightmare #7 [on inside cover] 1p
13) Werewolf Pin-Up [Bill Everett] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: A six month gap occurred
between #5 & #6. Herschel Waldman
was now Business Manager. Jeff Rovin was
listed as Assistant Editor for this issue only.
This was the last ‘Frankenstein, Book II’ story by Tom Sutton. The storyline would be continued by Al
Hewetson & Cesar Lopez in Nightmare #13.
Best story here is Ed Fedory’s grisly ‘Sand Castles’. Best art was for Pat Boyette’s ‘The
Vow!’ Other good stories & art
appeared from Doug Moench, Pablo Marcos, Tom Sutton, Jeff Jones and Gus St.
Anthony.
7. cover: Vicente Segrelles (July 1972) [Al Hewetson listed as Assoc. Editor.]
1) Edgar Allan Poe’s Pit & Pendulum [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p [frontis]
2) Kerene [David Anthony Kraft/Domingo Gomez] 5p
3) Horror Has 1 Thousand Faces! [Al Hewetson/Domingo
Gomez] 8p
4) The Family Jewels! [Dennis
Fujitake] 5p
5) Psycho Delivery [letters’ page] 2p
6) Guest Column [Ed Fedory] 1p [text article]
7) The Heap: A Spawn Of Satan [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 9p
8) The Terrible Tragedy Of
The Tormented One! [Marv Wolfman/Pablo Marcos] 5p [art credited to Jim
Elder]
9) The Masters Of Blood [Al Hewetson] 4p
[text article w/photos]
10) I Am Demona: The Feastings Of
Prince Yamm [
[art
credited solely to Englehart]
11) The Asylum Of Frozen
Hell [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 8p
12) Forewarned If Forearmed! [Jim Pinkoski] 2p
13) The Discombobulated Hand [Al Hewetson/Ramon
Torrents] 3p [story credited to Jay
Wood]
14) Ad for Nightmare #8 [on inside back cover] 1p
15) Skeleton Pin-Up [Pablo Marcos] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Al Hewetson was now listed
as Associate Editor. Dennis Fujitake
must have had a good laugh over that title for his story! This was Steve Englehart’s last outing as an
artist, although he’s had a long and celebrated career as a comics
writer. David Anthony Kraft delivers the
best story here with ‘Kerene’ while Pablo Marcos has the best art for ‘The
Terrible Tragedy Of The Tomented One!’. That story was by Marv Wolfman although the
title certainly seems like Al Hewetson must have had a hand in it.
8. cover: Erich Torres (Sept. 1972)
1) The Theater Of Horror [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez]1p [frontis]
2) The Human Gargoyles, part 1: A Gargoyle—A Man [Al
Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 10p
3) Scream Screen: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces Of
Ultimate Horror [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 4p
[text
article w/photos]
4) Devil’s Woman [Marv Wolfman/Ross Andru & Mike
Esposito] 10p
5) Psycho Delivery/The Psycho-Analyst [letters’
page/text article—Al Hewetson] 2p
6) Have You Ever Seen The Black Rain? [Al
Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 9p
7) The Filthy Little House Of
Voodoo [Al Hewetson/Ramon Torrents] 9p
8) Bad Choke [Don Glut/Juez Xirinius] 6p
9) City Of
10) Ghoul Pin-Up [Pablo Marcos] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Publisher:
9. cover: Domingo Gomez (Nov. 1972) [edited: Al Hewetson]
1) Horror-Mood Introduction [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 2p [intro by the Slither-Slime
Man, frontis &
titlepage]
2) The Slither-Slime Man [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos]
7p
3) Ghastly
4) Psycho Scribblings [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos
& Ernie
5) …Suffer The Little
Children [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 8p
[sequel to Henry James’ The Turn Of The
Screw]
6) Ghouls Of The Cinema!
[Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 4p [text article
w/photos]
7) A Plot Of Dirt [Doug
Moench/Felipe Dela
8) A Question Of
Identity!!! [Ed Fedory/Zesar Lopez] 8p
9) Voodoo Initation [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p
10) The Graveyard Jungle [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius]
8p
11) All The Ways And Means
To Die [Jeff Jones] 8p from the story
‘All The Myraid Ways’ by Larry
Niven
12) Ad for Nightmare #10 [Al Hewetson/Berni
Wrightson]1p
[on inside back cover]
Notes: The Slither-Slime Man is
cover featured. Hewetson must have loved
the Slither-Slime Man as he used him as a quasi-mascot representing the
Horror-Mood and in various cameos, although he would only appear in one
additional story. The ‘Horror-Mood’ declaration
is now a permanent part of the cover.
Herschel Waldman listed as co-publisher.
The letters’ page mentions a script submission from future comic writer
Roger McKenzie. It also includes a
favorable mention of the French magazine Pilote with a picture of a recent
cover. Also on the letters’ page, Al
Hewetson responses to Jim Warren’s Xerox Award insult. Best story here is Hewetson’s ‘The
Slither-Slime Man’, although Doug Moench and Ed Fedory also turn in good
stories. Best art is by Zesar Lopez,
making his Skywald debut on ‘A Question Of Identity!!!’. Larry Niven’s SF story would also be adapted
by Doug Moench & Vicente Alcazar for Marvel’s Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction title in 1975. This version, by Jeff Jones, was done in 1971
and originally intended for the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1. The inside back cover ad not only identified
Nightmare’s new child vampire host as Mr. Pook for the first time, it was also
the only time the name was mentioned in any Skywald book.
10.
cover: Pablo Marcos & Fernando (Jan. 1973)
1) Introduction [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 2p [frontis
& titlepage]
2) The Suicide Werewolf [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos]
10p
3) The Legend Of The
Man-Macabre [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 9p
4) …Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Corpses…
[Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 6p
5) The Legend Of An 18th Century Gentleman:
H. P. Lovecraft [Al Hewetson] 3p [text
article w/photos]
6) This Is The Slither-Slime Page [Al Hewetson, mini
bio of Ed Fedory] 2p [text article
w/photo]
7) The Heap: Even A Heap Can Die! [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 9p
8) The Transplant!! [Ed Fedory/Fernando Rubio] 7p
9) Scream Screen: A Leering Look At The Frankenstein
Monster…Karloff [Al
Hewetson] 2p [text article
w/photos]
10) Tightrope To Nowhere
[Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 9p
11) Re-Write: Frankenstein [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 2p [Not a part of the
Frankenstein serial but a
joke story.]
12) …It… [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 1p [text story, on back cover]
Notes: Hewetson writes a fine
little text feature on H. P. Lovecraft, who, along with Edgar Allan Poe,
Hewetson credited with the inspiration for the Horror-Mood. The article contains photos of HPL’s home and
neighborhood in
11.
cover: Fernando (Mar. 1973) [reprinted in B&W on the frontis]
1) …and it whispered…and it wept…and it did
shudder…and it did die… [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa]
7p
2) Scream Screen Movie Review:
Blacula [Al Hewetson] 3p [text article
w/photos]
3) …Make Mephisto’s Child Burn… [Ed Fedory/Felipe
Dela Rosa] 2p
4) The Heap: A Ship Of Fiends [Al Hewetson/Pablo
Marcos] 9p
5) …Roast Their Evil Bones… [Ed Fedory/Antonio
Borrell] 1p
6) Her Majesty—The Corpse
[Ed Fedory/Juez Xirinius] 1p
7) Hit And Run: Miss And
Die [Doug Moench/Villanova] 9p
8) A Bunch Of Answers:
Pablo Marcos Profile [letters’ page] 2p
9) Don’t Die Up There, Stanley [Al Hewetson/Jesus
Suso Rego] 9p
10) Tales Of Darkos Manse:
The Thing In Horror-Swamp! [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 10p
11) A Bag Of Fleas [Al
Hewetson/Jose Gual] 8p
Notes: Hewetson announces the start
of Phase Two of the Horror-Mood. The
second part of the Heap story also features the werewolf who had originally
appeared in the
12.
cover: Jeff Jones (May 1973)
1) The Mad-Doll Man [Al Hewetson/Jose Gual] 8p
2) Lunatic Picnic [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 6p
3) The Truth Behind The Horrors Of
Salem [Al Hewetson] 3p [text article
w/photos]
4) Studies In Horror [Al
Hewetson/Felipe Dela
5) The
6) The Swordsman Of Sarn
[Gardner Fox/Jack Katz & Vince Colletta] 12p
7) Scream Screen Scene: Asylum
[Al Hewetson] 2p [text article
w/photos]
8) The Lunatic Page: Gary Friedrich Profile
[letters’ page] 2p
9) The Heap: And The World
Shall Shudder [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 9p
10) Welcome To My Asylum
[Al Hewetson/Villanova] 4p
Notes: Both Jones’ cover and the
story ‘The Swordsman Of Sarn’ were done in 1971 and
originally intended for the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1. This was a rather poor issue with only ‘The
Mad-Doll Man’ and ‘Welcome To My Asylum’ managing to
rise above mediocrity. ‘The Weird Way It
Was’ was another takeoff on Lewis Carroll’s
13.
cover: Vincente Segrelles (July 1973)
1) Prologue To Horror [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez]
1p [frontis]
2) The Day Satan Died [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa]
8p
3) The Slither-Slime Pages: Maelo Cintron Profile
[Al Hewetson/Letters’ Page] 2p [text
article]
4) Monster, Monster In The
Grave! [Augustine Funnell/Pablo Marcos] 6p
5) Macabre Movie Review: Dracula A.D. 1972 [Al
Hewetson] 3p [text article w/photos]
6) Let’s All Drink To The
Death Of A Clown [Doug Moench/Fernando Rubio] 8p
7) The Heap: When Dies A
Lunatic…So Dies A Heap [Al Hewetson/Villanova] 11p
8) A Taste Of Human Flesh…
[Ed Fedory/Ferran Sostres] 2p
9) The Horror Within &
Without [Rich Buckler & Chuck McNaughton/Michael Kaluta] 8p from the story
‘City Of
10) The Raven [Al
Hewetson/Manuel] 2p [story credited to
Jessica Vogel]
11) The Taste Of Carrion
[Ed Fedory/Pablo Marcos] 7p
12 Scream Screen Scene: The Mummy [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 2p
Notes: The cover for this issue was
intended to highlight the story ‘The 13 Dead Things’ which didn’t actually
appear until #15. The story ‘The Horror Within & Without’ was done in 1971 and originally
intended for the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1. A photo of Maelo Cintron graced the letters’
page, where it was revealed that former news photographer Al Hewetson took all
contributor photos. The Heap series
ended with an uncharacteristic happy ending {the Heap is taken in by his
parents to live as normal a life as a horrific looking monster can}, and a
question was asked of the readers: Did they want more of the Heap? The answer was a resounding “Yes!”, much to Hewetson’s chagrin, as he hated the
character. Plans were made to relaunch
the series as soon as an artist could come up with a suitable reconception of
the character. After Hewetson rejected
four different proposals, eventually Gene Day came up with a suitable design,
and a relaunch of the series was announced—although the Skywald line folded
before it could see print. Scream Screen
Scene was not a movie review, but a brief retelling of a particular film in
comic form. Best story here was Ed
Fedory’s ‘The Taste Of Carrion’ and the best art was
Michael Kaluta’s work on ‘The Horror Within & Without’. Good work also appeared from Hewetson, Dela
Rosa, Marcos, Rubio, Funnell & Moench.
14.
cover: Ken Kelly (Sept. 1973)
1) The Dead [Al Hewetson/Maelo
Cintron] 1p [text story, frontis]
2) The Classic Creeps [Al Hewetson/Francisco Cueto]
13p
3) The Monstrosity…Strikes! [Augustine
Funnell/Ricardo Villamonte] 5p
4) The Slither-Slime Page: Augustine Funnell Profile
[letters’ page, Bob Burros/Jay Lynch] 2p
5) Scream Screen Reviews: Vault Of Horror & Who
Slew Auntie Roo? [Al Hewetson] 4p [text article
w/photos]
6) The Artist’s Other Hand [Al Hewetson; illustrated:
Jesus Suso Rego] 7p
7) The Horror That’s Not As
It Seems [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 1p
8) A Man Who Dare Not Sleep! [Ed Fedory/Felipe Dela
Rosa] 5p
9) Cassandra…Sorceress Of
The Seventh Wind [Marv Wolfman/Don Heck & Mike Esposito] 10p
10) The Hippy-Criters Are Comin’ [Al
Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 5p
11) I Battle The Vicious
Vampire Bats Of
8p [story credited to Maro Nava]
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. The letters’ page featured a cartoon by Jay
Lynch and a text story by Bob Burros. In
the story ‘The Artist’s Other Hand’ the main character is drawn to look like Al
Hewetson. Kelly’s cover, which depicted
classic movie monsters, could just as easily have graced a magazine like Famous
Monsters Of Filmland.
Best story is Hewetson’s ‘The Artist’s Other Hand’ while the best art
goes to newcomer Maro Nava. Other good
work appeared from Francisco Cueto, Suso and Augustine Funnell. Bit of a sloppy title for the last story, as
it mixes present and past tense verbs.
15.
cover: Vicente Segrelles (Nov. 1973)
1) How To Make A Mummy [Al
Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 1p [frontis]
2) The 13 Dead Things [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran]
12p [art credited to D. Duran]
3) Letters’ Page: Jose Gual Profile [Al Hewetson/Jose
Gual & Maro Nava] 2p [text article]
4) When The Bad Moon Rises…I Am A Ghoul! [Rodion
Eis/Mario Nava] 9p [the author is
possibly Al
Hewetson]
5) The Ghoul [Al Hewetson/Ferran
Sostres] 8p [story credited to Howie
Anderson]
6) The House Of Demons
[Chic Stone/Amador Garcia] 11p
7) Scream Screen: All Girl-Ghoul Movies Of The Macabre [Al Hewetson] 5p [text article w/photos]
8) Ghouls Walk Among Us [Augustine Funnell/Ferran
Sostres] 7p
9) The Town That Crumbled [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso
Rego] 1p
10) I Laugh The Laugh Of The Graceful Dead! [Al
Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 5p
11) Scream Ad [Zesar Lopez]
1p [on the back cover]
Notes: The letters’ page featured a
photo of Jose Gual. A voice balloon
contest appeared this issue. The best story in this issue, ‘The 13 Dead Things’ was originally
intended as the cover story for #13.
Best art went to Maro Nava for ‘When The Bad
Moon Rises…I Am A Ghoul!’ with more fine art from Suso, Ferran Sostres and
Amador.
16.
cover: Domingo Gomez (Jan. 1974)
1) The Old Vampire Lady [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran]
10p
2) The Archaic Horror Mailbag/Editorial: Christopher
Lee’s Comic Opinion [Al Hewetson & Christopher
Lee] 2p [text article w/photos]
3) Monster, Monster Rise From
Thy Crypt [Augustine Funnell/Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
4) Darkkos Manse: They Lived In Darkkos Manse! [Al
Hewetson/Maro Nava] 10p [story credited
to Joe
Dentyn]
5) The Thing With The Red Ribbon
In Its Hair [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 1p [story credited to
Domingo Gomez]
6) Dead—But Not Yet Buried: Edgar Allan Poe [Al
Hewetson] 4p [text article w/photos]
7) The Thing In
The Box [Al Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 6p
[story credited to Harvey Lazarus]
8) Hunger Of The
Slaughter-Sludge Beasts! [Doug Moench/Jesus Suso Rego] 11p
9) A Tale In Old
10) Movie Reviews: Nosferatu [Ed
Fedory] 1p [text article w/photos]
11) Greed [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte] 8p [story credited to
Edward Farthing]
Notes: The letters’ page featured a
guest ‘Comics Opinion’ by Christopher Lee, which was actually an unused segment
of the interview with Lee that appeared in Nightmare #17. In a classic comment, Lee ventures that comic
characters, like the Human Gargoyles, wouldn’t work in the context of films as
there was no way {at the time} to depict them realistically. There was also a plug for Dave Sim’s fanzine
‘Now & Then Times’. A back cover ad
touts Skywald’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.
The monster in the story ‘Greed’ is identical to the monster depicted on
the cover for #18. The best story here
is Hewetson’s delightful ‘The Old Vampire Lady’ while the best art would be
Ricardo Villamonte’s work on the ‘Monster, Monster’ segment and ‘Greed’.
17.
cover: Faba (Mar. 1974)
1) The Death Pit [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 1p [frontis]
2) The Black Sculpture Of
The Pharaohs [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 7p
3) Horror Preview Contest
[Ricardo Villamonte] 1p [a fill in the
word balloon contest]
4) Slither-Slime Previews For ’74 [Al
Hewetson/various] 2p [text article]
5) This Is Your Life, Sam Hammer, This Is Your
Death! [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 7p
6) This Is The Vault Of The Living Dead! [Al
Hewetson/Maro Nava] 8p [story credited
to
Lazarus]
7) These Are The Things That Are Dead [Al Hewetson/Felipe
Dela Rosa] 8p [story credited to Howie
8) The Crime In Satan’s
Crypt! [Ed Fedory/Antonio Borrell] 8p
9) The Lunatic Class Of ’64 [Jane Lynch/Emilio
Bernardo] 4p
10) The Narrative Of Skut
[Al Hewetson/Luis Collado] 7p
11) Monster, Monster, Heed Death’s Call [Augustine
Funnell/Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
Notes: A Horror Preview Contest
segment appeared. ‘Horror Previews for
‘74’ featured a montage of panels from upcoming stories. Jane Lynch, writer of ‘The Lunatic Class Of
‘64’ was the wife of underground cartoonist Jay Lynch. The inside back cover proclaims an imminent
return of the Heap, although the announcement proved overly optimistic. The best art again was Villamonte’s, on both
‘The Black Sculpture Of The Pharaohs’ and the ‘Monster,
Monster’ segments. Good work also
appeared from Maro Nava & Felipe Dela Rosa.
Best story was Hewetson’s ‘The Black Sculpture Of The Pharoahs’ although
Ed Fedory, Gus Funnell & Jane Lynch’s stories were also good.
18.
cover: Villanova (May 1974)
1) The Macabre [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 10p
2) The Archaic Horror Mailbag: Jose Maria Cardona
Profile [Al Hewetson/ Jesus Suso Rego] 1p
[text
article]
3) Lady Satan Sketch [Pablo Marcos] 1p [pin-up]
4) The Rats [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 10p
5) The Saga Of The Victims
Promo [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 1p
6) A Descent Into The
Maelstrom [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 10p
from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
7) Horror Preview Contest
[Ricardo Villamonte] 1p [a fill in the
word balloons contest]
8) Now…Another Maniac! [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron]
6p [story credited to Howie Anderson]
9) Uncle Ed’s Grave [Al Hewetson/Alphonso Font] 7p [story credited to
Howie Anderson]
10) Horror Books-Music-Movies [Ed Fedory, Augustine
Funnell & Al Hewetson] 2p [text
article]
11) The Boutique Macabre [Al Hewetson/Antonio
Borrell] 3p [story credited to Edward
Farthing]
12) Monster, Monster, Watch Them Die [Augustine
Funnell/Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
Notes: Villanova’s cover of a man
being attacked by rats was done in the form of a puzzle and was one of Psycho’s
most striking covers. Hewetson’s Poe
adaptations were often some of the best work he did and this issue’s effort
effort on ‘A Descent Into The Maelstrom’ was no
exceptation, easily having the best story and art here. ‘The Boutique Macabre’ was originally
intended for the ‘Town Of
19.
cover: Sebastia Boada (July 1974)
1) Old Horrors [Al
Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 1p [frontis]
2) Lady Satan: The Son Of Lord Lucifer [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 9p
3) Like A Bat Outta Hell [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte]7p
[story credited to Edward Farthing]
4) The Yeti [Al
Hewetson/Alphonso Font] 7p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
5) Ligeia [Al Hewetson/Jesus
Duran] 5p from the story by Edgar Allan
Poe
6) Horror-Mood Artist Of The
Month:
Ricardo Villamonte [Al Hewetson/ Ricardo Villamonte] 2p [text
article]
7) Psychotic Psycho Mailbag: Luis Collado Profile
[Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 2p [text
article, art
from The Saga Of The
Victims.]
8) The Revenge Of Dracula: Hell Is On Earth! [Al
Hewetson/Emilio Bernardo] 9p
9) Horror Preview Contest [Jose Martin Sauri] 1p
10) Scenes From The Great Classic Horror Movies [Al Hewetson/photos
& art from various stories.] 11p
11) Monster, Monster: And In This Land…A Monster
[Augustine Funnell/ Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
Notes: Lady Satan’s series moved
over from Scream for its last Skywald appearance. This character, as well as Skywald’s version
of the Heap, would be revived in 2003 in John Gallagher’s Bedlam fanzine from
20.
cover: Faba (Aug. 1974)
1) Nosferatu Ad [Zesar Lopez]
1p [frontis]
2) The Dead And The
Superdead [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 15p
3) The Horror Film Vault [Al
Hewetson] 3p [text article w/photos]
4) Psychotic Psycho Mailbag [letters’ page] 1p
5) Ad For 1974 Nightmare
Yearbook [Jose Martin Sauri] 1p
6) The Burial Vault Of
Primal Eld!!! [Ed Fedory/Antonio Borrell] 8p
7) Horror-Mood Artist Of The
Month:
Maelo Cintron [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 2p
[text article]
8) The Masque Of The Red
Death [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 9p
from the story by Edgar Allan
Poe
9) Tomorrow The Snowman Will Kill You! [Augustine
Funnell/Luis Collado] 5p
10) Requiem For A Human
Being
[Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 8p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
11) The Human Gargoyles, part 7: The Freaks [Al
Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 9p
12) Ad For 1974 Nightmare
Yearbook [illustrated: ?] 1p [on inside cover]
13) Ad For Tomb Of Horror
[illustrated: ?] 1p
[on back cover, ad for never published magazine]
Notes: The letters’ page revealed
that subscriptions for Skywald magazines were no longer currently available, reflecting Skywald’s uncertain future as Marvel
B&W magazines and Marvel’s distributor ate up valuable shelf space on the
magazine stands. Al Hewetson & Maelo
Cintron appear in the Human Gargoyles story, which
moved to Psycho for this issue only, probably due to the concurrent Nightmare
issue being a reprint special. Best
story was Hewetson’s superb adaptation of Poe’s ‘The Masque Of
The Red Death’ while best art honors went to both Villamonte for that
story and Cintron for the Human Gargoyles’ segment. ‘The Burial Vault Of
Primal Eld!!!’ was another good story by Ed Fedory.
21.
cover: Prieto Muriana (Oct. 1974)
1) The Fiend Of
2) Psychotic Psycho Mailbag [Al Hewetson/Zesar
Lopez] 2p [text article]
3) The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar [Al
Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 7p from the
story by Edgar Allan
Poe
4) 1974 Nightmare Yearbook Ad [Jose Martin Sauri] 1p
5) The Gloomb Bomb [Jack Katz] 12p
6) The Cadaver [Al Hewetson/Gene
Day] 2p [text story]
7) The Ghost Of The Corpse
[Al Hewetson/Luis Collado] 8p [story
credited to Edward Farthing]
8) Maxwell’s Blood Hammer [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona]
10p [story credited to Joe Dentyn]
9) The Claws Of Death! [Ed
Fedory/Folsengo Cabrerizo] 8p
10) Scream #9 Ad [B&W repo of cover] 1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: Hewetson presents a new
reader survey, entitled ‘Behemoth Bunch Of
Questions’. ‘The Gloomb Bomb’ was done
in 1971 and originally intended for the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey
#1. ‘The Fiend Of
Changsha!’ had a request for readers to write in if they’d like another
episode. Evidently the response was
positive as it would return in the final issue of Psycho. Best story here was Ed Fedory’s ‘The Claws Of
Death’ while the best art honors go to Sanho Kim’s ‘The Fiend Of Changsha!’. ‘Maxwell’s Bloody
Hammer’ was clearly a takeoff on the Beatles’ song ‘Maxwell’s Hammer’.
22.
cover: Prieto Muriana (Nov. 1974)
1) The Saga Of The
Frankenstein Monster: Die, Frankenstein’s Monster! [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez]
10p
2) Psychotic Psycho Editorial Page [Al
Hewetson/Virgil Finley; H. P. Lovecraft & Zesar Lopez] 2p [text
article w/spot illos]
3) Revolution! [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Dan
Adkins] 8p reprinted from Psycho #2
(Mar. 1971)
4) The Vow! [Pat Boyette]
7p reprinted from Psycho #6 (May 1972)
5) Birth Announcement! [Al Hewetson/Ramon Torrents]
4p reprinted from Psycho 1972 Annual
(Oct.
1972)
6) Phantom Of The Rock Era [Chuck McNaughton/Ralph
Reese] 8p reprinted from Nightmare #4 (June
1971)
7) The Midnight Slasher [Doug Moench/Pablo Marcos]
6p reprinted from Psycho #6 (May 1972)
8) Within The Torture
Chamber [Kevin Pagen/Doug Wildey] 8p
reprinted from Nightmare #5 (Aug.
1971)
9) Vault Of A Vampire [Al Hewetson/Serg Moren]
8p reprinted from Nightmare #3 (Apr.
1971)
10) Nightmare Pin-Up [Gene Day]
1p [on back cover]
Notes: The 1974 Psycho Fall-Special
is also Psycho #22, although it doesn’t say so anywhere in the issue
itself. There was also a 1974 Psycho
Yearbook that came out the same month, further confusing the matter. ‘The Saga Of The Frankenstein Monster’ is not
a continuation of Skywald’s earlier ‘Frankenstein, Book II’ {although the
writer/artist team are the same people who concluded that series} but rather a
continuation of Hewetson’s personal take on the character, begun in Scream
#7. The letters’/editorial page was all
about H. P. Lovecraft and the Shoggoth series.
It contained a Virgil Finley portrait of Lovecraft, a concept sketch of
Cthulhu by HPL himself, a checklist of Skywald’s Shoggoth stories, and a offer
for a Shoggoth crusade certificate, signed by Hewetson and others, making the
reader a part of Skywald’s crusade against the Shoggoths {playing off the fact
that Hewetson & other Skywald creators had been featured as protagonists in
the previous Shoggoth stories}.
23.
cover: Sebastia Boada (Jan. 1975)
1) People Of The Dark [Robert E. Howard/Gene Day]
1p [frontis]
2) The Phantom Of The Dead: Midnight In Wax [Al
Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri] 10p
3) Psycho Mailbag: Gene Day/Augustine Funnell
Profiles [letters’ page] 2p [text
article]
4) The Curse Of The Snake
Goddess [Ed Fedory/Jose Cardona] 7p
5) Portfolio Of The Master
Criminal, The Vampire [Gene Day, Ricardo Villamonte, Ferran Sostres, Zesar
Lopez, Paul Puigagut, Jesus
Duran, Pablo Marcos w/photos] 3p [text
article—with the exception
of Day, all art is from
previous stories.]
6) A
7) Killerclown [Augustine Funnell/Gene Day] 2p [text story]
8) The Werevampirewolf [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona]
5p [story credited to Jose Cardona]
9) The Man Of The Crowd [Al
Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 5p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
10) The 300th Birth Day Party! [Al
Hewetson/Ramon Torrents] 5p reprinted
from Nightmare #9 (Oct.
1972)
11) The Mummy Khafre, part 2: The Murderess [Al
Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 10p
12) Pin-Up [Maelo Cintron]
1p [on inside back cover]
13) Zombie Pin-Up [Gene Day]
1p [on back cover]
Notes: Gene Day’s frontis work
consisted of a brief bit of prose from a horror writer {in this case, Robert E.
Howard} and a full page illo for that bit.
At least 12 of these pages were completed but only two saw print. A ‘Horror-Mood Character Vote’ in which
readers could vote on their favorite continuing character was included. ‘The Little Horror-Mood Shop Of Horrors’—a 5-page catalog of novelty items similar to
24.
cover: Sebastia Boada/frontis: Gene Day (Mar.
1975)
1) A Fragment In The Life
Of Dracula: Within The Walls Of Castle Dracula! [Al Hewetson/Jose Martin
Sauri] 10p [story credited to Howie Anderson]
2) Monster, Monster, chapter 7: Visions Of Bloody Death [Augustine Funnell/Paul Puigagut] 8p
3) Daughter Of Darkness
[Joan Cintron/Maelo Cintron] 6p
4) The Book Of The Dead!
[Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 2p [story
credited to Hugh Lasky]
5) From Hell To
Eternity! [Ed Fedory/Jose Cardona] 8p
[art credited to Andy Crandon]
6) The Cry Of The White
Wolf [Dave Sim/Luis Collado] 6p [art credited to Stan Connerty]
7) Psycho Mailbag [letters’
page/editorial] 2p [text article]
8) …If I Should Die Before I
Wake… [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 5p
[story credited to Victor Buckley,
art credited to Andy Crandon]
9) The Fiend Of Changsha,
part 2: Dead By Day, Fiend By Night [Al Hewetson/Sanho Kiim] 8p [serial
never finished]
10) Werewolf Ad [Jose Martin
Sauri] 1p [same as back cover of
Nightmare #23, advertising an upcoming
(but never published)
original illustrated novel]
11) Psycho Next Issue Ad [Gene
Day] 1p [on back cover, same art as
Nightmare #23’s frontis]
Notes: Final issue,
and the last Skywald magazine released. Now $1.00 for 64 pages.
The cover stated this was the 1975 Psycho Winter Special. Only the titlepage identified it as #24. Dave Sim made his professional debut with the
story of ‘The Cry Of The White Wolf’, which featured a
photo of Sim on the splash page, along with the note that Skywald was “pleased
to introduce demented Dave Sim for the first time in the comic medium”. The letters’ page mentioned Basil Wolverton’s
‘Barflyze’ book, previewed a pencil sketch for a never published cover by
Sebastia Boada and mentioned that upcoming stories {never published, naturally}
would be written by former EC writer Carl Wessler and former Warren
editor/writer J. R. Cochran. Augustine
Funnell’s ‘Monster Monster’ serial also had one more segment that went
unpublished. ‘The Fiend Of Changsha!’ returned with an extremely good segment. It’s a pity that we’ll never know how it was
to end. Best art was by Sanho Kim, Maelo
Cintron and Jose Martin Sauri. A cover
was produced for the never published 25th issue, cover dated May
1975, which stated that another episode of ‘The Fiend Of
Changsha!’ and seven more stories would have appeared there.
Scream
1. cover: Vicentes Segrelles (Aug. 1973)
1) Prologue To A Scream [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez]
1p [text article, frontis]
2) Welcome To
Scream #1 [Al Hewetson] 1p [text
article w/photos]
3) I, Slime [Al Hewetson/Jose Gual] 6p
4) Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 5p
5) The Sloggoths: This Archaic Breeding Ground… [Al
Hewetson/Jose Gual] 10p
6) …
7) Nosferatu: Where Lunatics Live [Al Hewetson/Zesar
Lopez] 10p
8) The Skeleton In the
Desert [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron] 2p
[text article]
9) The Tale Of The Perfect
Crime [Al Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 6p
10) The Comics Macabre [Al Hewetson/Maelo Cintron]
6p
11) The Strange Painting Of
Jay Crumb [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
12) Scream [Al Hewetson/Zesar
Lopez] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Publisher:
2. cover: Jose Miralles (Oct. 1973)
1) Editorial [Al
Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 1p [text
article]
2) Lady Satan: The Macabre Beginning [Al
Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 9p
3) I Was A Vampire For Hire
[Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
4) Gothic Fairy Tales: The Thing In The Black Dress
[Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 5p
5) The Pit And The Pendulum
[Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 6p
from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Phantom Of The Opera
[Al Hewetson/Maro Nava] 2p
7) The Vampire Hunters [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez]
1p
8) The Vampire Letters [Al Hewetson/Emilo Bernardo]
8p
9) The Thing That Left No Fingerprints [Al
Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 1p
10) The Fetid Belle Of The
11) Mailbag: Jesus Suso Rego Profile [Al
Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 2p [text
article]
12) Nosferatu: The Name Is Sinner Cane…And The Name
Means Evil! [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 9p
13) A Gothic Fairy Tale: A Tale Of
2 Macabre Snakes [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 1p [on back
cover]
Notes: Lady Satan was a rare {for
the 1970s} African-American horror character that was generally well written
& illustrated. Best story here was
Hewetson’s ‘The Thing In The Black Dress’ while the
best artwork came from Jesus Suso Rego, although the stories and art are
generally quite good throughout this issue.
3. cover: Villanova/frontis: Jesus Duran (Dec. 1973) [Wraparound cover]
1) The Phantom Of The Opera
[Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 18p from the
novel by Gaston Leroux
2) Lunatic Letters From The Macabre Scream
Mailbag/Editorial [Al
Hewetson] 2p [text
article]
3) Lady Satan, part 2: What Is Evil And What Is Not [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 9p
4) The Fall Of The House Of
Usher [Al Hewetson/Maro Nava] 12p from
the story by Edgar Allan Poe
5) Messers. Crypts And
6) Nosferatu: The Tale Of
Another [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 10p
7) Nightmare Ad [Ricardo
Villamonte] 1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: The issue number doesn’t
appear until page 22. Dave Sim sends in
a letter. The letters’ page also
featured a bio & photo of Domingo Gomez.
Hewetson & Nava’s adaptation of ‘The Fall Of The
House Of Usher’ featured the best story & art but the ‘Phantom Of
The Opera’ adaptation was also very good as was the latest installment of Lady
Satan.
4. cover: Villanova (Feb. 1974) [Wraparound cover.]
1) Lady Satan, part 3: Satan Wants A Child [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 9p [story credited to
Howie Anderson]
2) Edgar Allan
Poe In The Movies [Al Hewetson] 4p
[text article w/photos]
3) The Oblong Box [Al
Hewetson/Maro Nava] 7p from the story
by Edgar Allan Poe
4) Archaic Scream Announcements: Ed Fedory Profile/Comics
Opinion [Al Hewetson & Dave Sim/Jose
Gual & Jack
5) The Skull Of The Ghoul
[Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 10p
6) The Legend Of The
Cannibal Were-Wolf [Ed Fedory/Ricardo Villamonte] 8p
7) The Lunatic Mummy [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 10p
8) The
9) Nosferatu: When The Dusk Falls…So Does Death… [Al
Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 9p
Notes: There was an ad for Russ
Cochran’s EC reprints. The letters’ page
had a photo of Ed Fedory. Lady Satan
would be continued in Psycho #19. Lady
Satan also had the best story & art in this issue although I also quite
liked the Hewetson/Sostres’s ‘The Skull Of The Ghoul’.
5. cover: Fernando (Apr. 1974)
1) The Autobiography Of A
Vampire, Chapter 2 [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 10p
2) The Macabre Scream Mailbag/The Comics Opinion
[Augustine Funnell] 2p [text article]
3) Darkkos Manse: Get Up And
Die Again [Al Hewetson/Alphonso Font] 8p
[story credited to Howie
4) The Cask Of Amontillado
[Al Hewetson/Maro Nava] 7p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
5) The Black Orchids And The Tale
Of Anne [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 7p
[story credited to Stuart
Williams]
6) The Conqueror Worm And The
Haunted Palace [Al Hewetson/Domingo Gomez] 2p
from the poems by
Edgar Allan Poe
7) Are You Dead Yet? [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte] 10p
8) Shift: Vampire [Augustine Funnell/Emilo Bernardo]
6p
9) The Picture Of Dorian
Gray [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 9p from
the novel by Oscar Wilde
Notes: The back cover featured a
pen & ink version of the cover, used as an ad for the proposed Tomb Of Horror title.
Pages 4 & 5 of the story ‘Are You Dead Yet?’ are out of order. ‘The Autobiography Of A
Vampire’ was continued from Nightmare #17.
I didn’t really like much of anything about this issue. It’s not a terrible issue, just not too
interesting.
6. cover: Faba (June 1974)
1) The Vampire Of The Opera
[Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 15p
2) Ms. Found In A Bottle [Al Hewetson/Alphonso Font]
6p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
3) Frankenstein 2073: The Death Of
The Monster [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 9p [story credited to Henry
Bergman]
4) The Archaic Horror Mailbag/Editorial: Zesar Lopez
Profile [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
5) Nosferatu: …And The
Gutters Ran With Blood… [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 9p
6) The Saga Of The Victims: What Is Horror? No, Who Is Horror? [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso
Rego] 20p
7) Psycho Ad [Sebastia Boada]
1p [on inside back cover, B&W repo
of #19’s cover]
Notes: ‘Frankenstein 2073’ featured
the death of Frankenstein’s Monster and the end of the ‘Frankenstein, Book II’
serial that had begun in Psycho #3 and was continued from Nightmare #13. The letters’ page featured Zesar Lopez’s bio
& photo. The scarred man on the
cover is modeled on actor Peter Cushing.
The big news this issue was the debut of what may have been the first
modern graphic novel. Hewetson &
Suso’s ‘Saga Of The Victims’ featured two college age girls, one white and one
black, who ventured into the basement of their school only to discover a
nightmare world of pain, madness and degradation. Sounds like a BDSM novel but it wasn’t. For five giddy episodes the girls went on a
nightmarish rollercoaster ride through virtually every horror cliché one could
imagine. Hewetson stated that his goal
was to write a horror story that nobody could figure out the ending to ahead of
time. Then Scream was cancelled with a
single episode left unpublished and fans would spend years wondering how Hewetson
had planned {or even if he could have planned} to tie it all up. Finally, in the spring of 2004, British small
press publisher John Gallagher of Chimera Arts, with the permission of the late
Al Hewetson & artist Jesus Suso Rego, would publish the entire saga,
including the previously unpublished 17 page final chapter {with Gallagher
himself filling in a few missing panels}.
Lo and behold, Hewetson & Suso had come up with an ending that
actually worked…and fulfilled Hewetson’s desire to lead the reader down
unfamiliar paths. If you’re interested,
both Headpress in
7. cover:
1) Horror Fragments: The Headless Horseman [Al
Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 1p [frontis]
2) The Man With No Face [Al
Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 10p [story
credited to Howie Anderson]
3) The Archaic Horror Mailbag/Editorial [Al
Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri] 1p [text
article]
4) Nosferatu: Satan’s Third Reich [Al Hewetson/Zesar
Lopez] 9p
5) Berenice [Al Hewetson/Ricardo
Villamonte] 7p from the story be Edgar
Allan Poe
6) Horror-Mood Artist Of The
Month:
Zesar Lopez [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 2p
[text article]
7) The Saga Of The
Frankenstein Monster: The Descent Into Hell! [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 9p
8) Tomb Of
Horror Ad [Zesar Lopez] 1p [ad
for never published magazine]
9) The Saga Of The Victims:
I Am Horror [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 20p
Notes: The ‘Saga Of
The Frankenstein Monster’ is not a continuation of the Frankenstein Book
II serial that concluded in the previous issue but Hewetson’s own
interpretation of the Frankenstein saga.
It would continue in the Psycho 1974 Fall Special. Best story & art are from the ‘Saga Of The Victims’.
8. cover: Faba (Aug. 1974)
1) Psycho 1974 Yearbook Ad
[Steve Hickman] 1p [frontis] Hickman’s art
reprinted from Psycho #2
(Mar. 1971)
2) The Tell-Tale Heart [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte]
8p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
3) The Archaic Horror
Mailbag/Augustine Funnell Profile [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]
4) Nosferatu: My Prison In
Hell [Al Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 9p [art
miscredited to Cesar Lopez]
5) The Slither-Slime Man Rises Again [Al
Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 8p [story
credited to Howie
6) Jesus Suso Rego: Horror-Mood Artist Of The Month [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 2p [text article]
7) The Mechanical Cannibals [Rich Buckler/Rich
Buckler & Chic Stone] 11p from the story ‘From
Fanaticism
Or For Reward’ by Harry Harrison
8) The Saga Of The Victims:
I…Am Torment [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 20p
9) Nightmare Ad [Sebastia Boada]
1p [on inside back cover, B&W repo
of #20’s cover]
Notes: The letters’ page offered
readers a chance to join the Shoggoth Crusade {see the Psycho 1974 Fall
Special}. ‘The Mechanical Cannibals’ was
originally done in 1971 and had been intended to appear as a 10 page story for
the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1.
It was expanded to 11 pages by inserting a pin-up page taken from what
was intended to be the frontispiece. The
original author, Harry Harrison, was one of the original EC horror
artists. Frankly, any issue the ‘Saga of
The Victims’ appeared in tended to be dominated in both story & art by that
chapter and this issue was no exception.
9. cover: Faba (Sept. 1974)
1) Psycho Ad for The Fiend Of
2) Down To Hades…To Die! [Augustine Funnell/Paul
Puigagut] 7p
3) The Archaic Scream
Mailbag/Editorial [Al Hewetson] 2p
[text article]
4) Metzengerstein [Al
Hewetson/Luis Collado] 6p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
5) Nosferatu: Who Killed The Shark? [Al
Hewetson/Zesar Lopez] 10p
6) Horror-Mood Artist Of The
Month:
Pablo Marcos [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 2p
[text article]
7) The Asylum [Al Hewetson/John
Agras] 5p [story credited to Howie
Anderson]
8) Gothic Fairy Tales: I Never Heard Of A Ghost
Actually Killing Anyone! [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell]
6p
9) The Saga Of The Victims:
I Am Treachery…I Am Horror [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 20p
10) Nightmare Ad [Gene Day]
1p [on back cover]
Notes: Hewetson’ adaptation of
Poe’s ‘Mezengerstein’ was the best story this issue while Suso’s latest chapter
of the ‘Saga Of The Victims’ continued to offer the best artwork. ‘Down To Hades…To Die!’ by Gus Funnell was
also a good story.
10.
cover: Sebastia Boada (Oct. 1974)
1) The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon
Pym Of Nantucket Preview [Cesar Lopez] 1p [frontis]
2) My Flesh Crawls [Al Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri]
10p
3) The Archaic Scream Mailbag/Editorial [Al
Hewetson] 2p [text article]
4) A Fragment In The Life Of Dracula: Creatures In
The Night [Al Hewetson/Jose Cardona] 9p
5) The Murders In The Rue
Morgue [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 12p
from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Art Of
Killing Human Monsters [Al Hewetson] 3p
[text article]
7) The Stranger Is The
Vampire [Al Hewetson/Paul Pueyo] 10p
[story is miscredited to Paul Pueyo]
8) Tales Out Of Hell, part 2: In His Master’s
Blood [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 10p
[story credited to
Howie Andereson]
Notes: The frontispiece carries an
ad for an upcoming 25-page Poe adaptation by Hewetson & Cesar Lopez. At least part of it was drawn, since a page
is reproduced here {see also The Horror-Mood Odyssey} but if completed, it
never saw print. ‘Tales Out Of Hell’ was continued from Nightmare #19. The ‘Saga Of The
Victims’ skipped an issue to allow Suso to catch up on his deadlines. Best story would be ‘The Stranger Is The Vampire’ although it is hampered by lackluster art,
while Jose Martin Sauri has the best art honors on ‘My Flesh Crawls’.
11.
cover: Ballestar (Mar. 1975)
1) Werewolf Illustrated Novel Ad
[Jose Martin Sauri] 1p [frontis]
2) Nosferatu: I Kill To Live [Al Hewetson/Zesar
Lopez] 10p
3) Scream Mailbag & Previews [Al Hewetson/Cesar
Lopez & Paul Puigagut & an ad for the never
published Psycho #25 which was to
have 10 linked stories about a single town snatched from hell.]
4) You Can’t Judge A Killer By The Corpse! [Augustine
Funnell/Jose Cardona] 9p [art credited
to Andy
Crandon]
5) Who Are They? The Breeders! [Ed Fedory/Luis
Collado] 7p
6) The Exorcist Reviews [Ed Fedory, Augustine
Funnell & Al Hewetson/Gene Day] 4p
[text article
w/photos]
7) The Raven [Al Hewetson/Peter
Cappiello] 5p from the poem by Edgar
Allan Poe [story credited to
Peter Cappiello while the
art was credited to Denis Ford]
8) The Saga Of The Victims:
I Am A Proud Monstrosity [Al Hewetson/Jesus Suso Rego] 20p [Story
was finally concluded in 2004
& published as a graphic novel by
Chimera Arts Books. See notes for #6.]
9) Psycho #25 Ad [?] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: Final issue. $1.00 for 64 pages. Cover announces this as the 1975 Winter
Special. There was a six months’ hiatus
between #10 & #11. The titlepage
lists the cover artist Ballestar’s first name as Ed but Hewetson confirmed that
he made up that name because he was so tired of Spanish artists without
surnames. He also changed Spanish names
to Anglo-Saxon ones so it would appear that he had American artists working on
the magazines. The editorial page
explains why the Heap hadn’t reappreared {see notes for Nightmare #20}. The editorial page also mentions that Psycho
#25 was to be a ‘Tales Of Evil’ special edition and
that the ‘Monster, Monster’ series would end with part 9. None of those stories saw print. ‘The Little Horror-Mood Shop Of Horrors’—a 5-page catalog of novelty items similar to
Psycho 1972 Annual
1. cover: Pujolar (Aug. 1972)
[edited: Al Hewetson]
1) Psycho’s Supernatural Series: The Horned Goat Of Satan [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 1p [frontis]
2) Lucifer Awaits You! [David Anthony
Kraft/Villanova] 6p
3) Burn, Baby, Burn [Len Brown/Carlos Garzon] 6p
4) The Heap: What Hath Hell Wrought? [Al
Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 8p
5) The Myth Of Dracula [Al Hewetson/Ramon de la
Fuente] 7p [brother
of Victor de la Fuente]
6) …Blind Fate [Ed Fedory/Francisco Cueto] 7p
7) The Cursing Of Captain Skull [
8) The Furnace Of Hell
[Robert Kanigher/Amador Garcia] 12p
9) Birth Announcement [Al Hewetson/Ramon Torrents]
4p
10) Pin-Up [Pablo Marcos] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. Skywald was unique in having summer specials
or annuals that featured all new stories.
The best story here is Hewetson’s ‘The Myth Of
Dracula’ while Francisco Cueto provided the best art. Good work also appeared from Robert Kanigher,
Steve Hickman, Ramon Torrents {his American debut}, Carlos
Garzon & Villanova.
1. cover: Vicente Segrelles (Nov. 1972) [edited: Al Hewetson]
1) The Truth Behind The Myth Of
The Bride Of Dracula [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 1p [frontis]
2) The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll
And Mr. Hyde [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 10p from the novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson
3) A Macabre Fact Of Life: The Indian Rope Trick [Al
Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 2p
4) Beauty Is Only Skin Deep [Doug Moench/Fred
Carrillo] 9p
5) Limb From Limb From
Death [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 7p
6) The Nightmare World: A Grave Beneath
The Sea! [Al Hewetson/Bill Payne] 4p
from a dream by
Joseph Elliott
7) Alone [Bruce Jones] 12p
8) And If A Fiend Should Come A-Callin’ [Al
Hewetson/Luis M. Roca] 6p
9) The Day The Earth Will Die! [Al Hewetson/Ferran
Sostres] 10p
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. This was the last squarebound issue of the
Skywald line. This is a very good issue
with strong stories throughout. Best
story was Hewetson’s ‘Limb From Limb From Death’,
which was possibly the goriest story that Skywald ever published. Best art is Bruce Jones’ story ‘Alone’ which
also had a very good story. Other fine
work appeared from Juez Xirinius, Ricardo Villamonte, Doug Moench, Luis Roca & Ferran Sostres.
Nightmare 1973 Winter-Special
1. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1973) [edited: Al Hewetson]
1) Die Mummy! [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 8p
2) Nightmare Movie Review: Dr. Phibes Rises Again
[Al Hewetson] 3p [text article
w/photos]
3) I Left My Heart In The
Burial Pit, I Had No Choice [Al Hewetson/Jose Gual] 7p
4) Beyond The Walls!!! [Ed
Fedory/Villanova] 1p
5) Mephisto’s Brand [Ed Fedory/Jesus Suso Rego] 1p
6) The Horror Tub [Al Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 8p
7) The Event In The Night?
[Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 7p
8) Beware It…Fear It…It Screams! [Al
Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 9p
9) The Night Of The
Mutant-Eaters [Al Hewetson/Dennis Fujitake] 8p
10) The Last Witch! [Ed Fedory/Antonio Borrell] 1p
11) Special Awards Page [Al Hewetson/Gahan Wilson]
2p [text article w/spot illos]
12) Whether Man Or
Scarecrow [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. The letters’ page featured a previously
unpublished Gahan Wilson cartoon.
Kelly’s cover is quite good. Fine
work appears here from Suso, Ed Fedory, Rubio and Pablo Marcos but the best
story & art go the Hewetson/Borrell psycho-sexual drama ‘Beware It…Fear It…It Screams!’
The 1974 Psycho Yearbook
1. cover: montage of Psycho covers #1, 3, 7, 8, 9 &
13/frontis: Paul Pueyo (Apr. 1974)
1) The Saga Of The
Frankenstein’s Monster: The Brides Of Frankenstein [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 9p
2) Horror-Mood Ad [Bill Everett]
1p [art reprinted from the prose story
in Nightmare #1 (Dec. 1970)]
3) Psychotic Psycho Mailbag [letters’ page, tributes
to Syd Shores & Bill
4) Slime World [Chuck McNaughton/Ralph Reese]
10p reprinted from Nightmare #5 (Aug.
1971)
5) The Man Who Stole Eternity [Gardner Fox/Bill
Everett] 10p reprinted from Psycho #3
(May 1971)
6) Beware Small Evils! [Jack Katz & Frank
Giacoia] 10p reprinted from Nightmare
#3 (Apr. 1971)
7) The Inner Man [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Dan
Adkins] 10p reprinted from Nightmare #3
(Apr. 1971)
8) The Deadly Mark Of The
Beast! [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Tom Palmer] 8p reprinted from Nightmare
#1 (Dec. 1970)
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. With this issue, the Skywald annuals began to
resemble the
The 1974 Nightmare Yearbook
1. cover: Vicente Segrelles plus previous covers including #3,
7, 11 & 13 (Oct. 1974)
1) Dracula: The God Of The
Dead [Al Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri] 9p
2) Dracula Is Alive (?) And Evil In
This 1974 Nightmare Yearbook [Al Hewetson] 2p
[text article]
3) A Rottin’ Deal [Bruce Jones]
11p reprinted from Nightmare #3 (Apr.
1971)
4) Let The Dreamer Beware
[Jerry Siegal/Ralph Reese] 7p reprinted
from Psycho #5 (Nov. 1971)
5) Escape [Dennis Fujitake]
2p reprinted from Psycho #4 (Sept.
1971)
6) Whence Stalked The
Werewolf [Len Brown/Carlos Garzon] 6p
reprinted from Nightmare #5 (Aug.
1971)
7) Power Of The Pen! [Doug
Moench/Doug Wildey] 11p reprinted from
Psycho #5 (Nov. 1971)
8) Hag Of The Blood Basket!
[Al Hewetson/Tom Sutton] 16p reprinted
from Nightmare #4 (June 1971)
9) Psycho #20 Ad [B&W repo of cover] 1p [on inside back cover]
10) Scream Ad [Jesus Suso Rego] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. Another good collection,
with the sole new story being quite good as well.
1. cover: Harry Rosenbaum (Aug. 1971)
1) How…Why…Hell Rider?/About
Andru And Esposito [Gary Friedrich] 2p
[text article, includes bios of
Ross Andru & Mike Esposito]
2) Introducing…The Hell-Rider [Gary Friedrich/Ross
Andru & Mike Eposito] 20p
3) The Butterfly [Gary Friedrich/John Celardo &
Mike Esposito] 14p
4) The Wild Bunch [Gary Friedrich/Syd Shores &
Mike Esposto] 14p
5) The Hell-Rider: The Final Chapter [Gary
Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 10p
6) Curly’s Cycle Corner [Gary
Friedrich] 2p [text article]
Notes: Publisher:
2. cover: Harry Rosenbaum (Oct. 1971)
1) Write On!/Gary
Friedrich Admits To A Few Things! [Gary Friedich] 2p [text article/letters’ page
w/photo.]
2) The Hell-Rider: Night Of The Ripper [Gary
Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 24p
3) The Wild Bunch: Blood On Their Spokes [Mike
Friedrich/Syd Shores & Mike Esposito] 13p
4) Curly’s Cycle Corner [Gary
Friedrich] 1p [text article]
5) The Butterfly: Against The
Brothers Of The Crimson Cross! [Rich Bucker & Gary Friedrich/Rich
Buckler] 11p
6) The Hell-Rider:
Notes: Final issue. The letters’ page included a bio & photo
of Gary Friedrich. ‘Special Effects’ are
credited to Bill Everett & Carlos Garzon.
The never published (although advertised) third issue would have
featured a cover by Gray Morrow and a Hell-Rider story entitled ‘The Zodiac
Killers’.
The Crime Machine
1. cover: Tom Palmer/titlepage: Jack Abel (Feb. 1971)
1) Vinne Sherwood, Racket King! [?/Mike
Becker &Vince Alacia] 6p reprinted
from All True Detective
Cases, 1952, 100p
Special [Which was likely a reprint or
rebinding of various crime comics itself.]
2) Marion Gilmore, Queen Of The Waterfront Gangs [?/Joe Kubert] 7p
reprinted from All True Detective
Cases, 1952
3) Brothers In Crime [?/?]
7p
4) Baby Face Nelson [?/?]
5) The Mole [?] 2p
[text story]
6) Walter Legenza And The Tri-State Gang [?/Joe Kubert] 8p
7) George Krowl And The Big City Murder Mob [?/?] 7p
8) Boss Of The Death Gang [?/?]
7p
9) Greek-Fire To Flame-Thrower [?/?]
1p
10) Toots Garboli And His Fight Racketeers [?/?]
Notes: Publisher:
2. cover: Tom Palmer (May 1971)
1) No Jail Could Hold Him! [?/Carmine
Infantino & Vince Alascia] 6p
reprinted from Prison Break #5,
2) Francine O’Connor…The Empress Of Crime [?/
3) Charlie Lupetti And His Bullet-Proof Gang [?/?] 7p
4) The Corpse In The Lake
[?] 1p [text story]
5) Lou ‘Limpy’ Savatto, Hired Gunman [?/?] 5p
6) Leech McCoy…Incendiary Killer! [?/?] 6p
7) Juanita Perez, The Gypsy Killer [?/Tex Blaisdell] 6p
reprinted from All True Detective Cases, 1952
8) Waxie Gordon! [?/Mike
Becker & Rocke Masterserio] 7p
reprinted from All True Detective Cases,
1952
9) The Masqueraders [?/?] 6p reprinted
from Police Trap #17, IW/Super Comics, 1964
10) Death In
The Air [?] 1p [text story]
11) Easy Money [?/Mike
Becker & Vince Alascia] 6p
reprinted from Prison Break #5,
12) Habit Traps A Killer [?] 2p
[text story] reprinted from All
TrueDetective Cases, 1952
Notes: Final issue. G-Man host Matt Grover is renamed Nat
Grover. The Overstreet Price Guide notes
that Doug Wildey & Angelo Torres have art in this issue.
Science Fiction Odyssey
1. cover: Jeff Jones/frontis: Rich Buckler
(unpublished—intended for Sept. 1971)
1) Introduction [Al Hewetson]
1p [text article]
2) From Fanaticism Or For
Reward [Rich Buckler/Rich Buckler & Chic Stone] 10p from the story by
Harry Harrison [published in Scream #7 as The Mechanical
Cannibals.]
3) All The
The Ways And Means To Die.]
4) The Swordsman Of Sarn
[Gardner Fox/Jack Katz & Vince Colletta] 12p [published in Psycho #12]
5) Author’s Space [bios of Terry Carr, Gardner Fox,
Harry Harrison, Larry Niven & Don Thompson] 2p
[text
article]
6) City Of
Carr [published in Psycho #13 as The Horror Within And Without]
7) The Weapon Within Us
[Jack Katz/Jack Katz & Jack Abel] 12p
[published in Psycho #21 as The
Gloomb Bomb]
8) The New Science [Don Thompson/Berni Wrightson]
2p [text article, art was published as
spot illos for
the text story ‘The Thing In
The Alley’ and for the Frogs movie review.]
9) Starchild [Bruce Jones] 6p
Notes: Skywald’s famous aborted
magazine would have been the first adult SF comic since EC’s Incredible Science
Fiction, but in the wake of the color line’s collapse and the Waldmans’ belief
that SF didn’t sell, the magazine was withdrawn, although after film had been
made and just before delivery to the printers.
Publisher:
The Skywald
Color Comics Section!
1. cover: Jack Katz & John Severin (Feb. 1971) [all color comics edited: Sol Brodsky]
1) The Sundance Kid: Death Rides The Thunder Wagon
[Len Wein?/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 11p
2) Geronimo: The Challenge Of The One Hundred [?/
#? (1950s)
3) Western Range Book [?]
1p [text article] reprint from the 1950s
4) Doc Holliday [?/?]
2p reprint from the 1950s
5) Doc Holliday, The Fast Draw Dentist [?/?] 2p reprint from
the 1950s
6) Red Mask: The Weapons Of Red Mask [?/Frank Bolle] 7p
reprinted from Red Mask #47 (Jan. 1955)
7) 20 Seconds—30 Deadly Shots [?/Mike
Becker?] 9p reprint from the 1950s
2. cover: Dick Ayers & John Severin (Apr. 1971)
1) The Sundance Kid: Ride The Raging River [Len
Wein/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 10p
2) Kit Carson: The Doom Trail [?/Carmine
Infantino & ?] 8p reprinted from
Kit Carson #5 (Nov.-Dec.
1954)
3) Jesse James: The Trap Of Terror
[?/?] 7p
reprinted from Jesse James #? (1950s)
4) Wild Bill Hickok And The Silver Mine Outlaws [?/? & Bill Everett] 6p
reprinted from Wild Bill
Hickok #? (1950s) [
5) Red Mask: Three Famous Badmen [Gardner Fox/Frank
Bolle] 7p reprinted from Red Mask #48
(Mar.
1955)
Tender
Love Stories
1. cover: Don Heck
& ? (Feb. 1971)
1) contents unknown at this
time
2. cover: Jack Katz?
(Apr. 1971)
1) contents unknown at this
time
3. cover: ? (June
1971)
1) contents
unknown at this time
4. cover: ? (July
1971)
1) contents
unknown at this time
1. cover:
1) The Bravados [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Mike
Esposito] 10p
2) Billy Nevada: The Town That Forgot [?/Don Heck] 4p
reprinted from Billy The Kid #?
(? 1950s) [all
Billy Nevada stories are
Billy The Kid stories retitled.]
3) The Durango Kid’s Western
Dictionary [?/?] 2p
[text article] reprinted from
Durango Kid #35 (Apr.
1955)
4) Durango Kid: Dead-Shot Debbie [?/Fred
Guardineer] 7p reprinted from Durango
Kid #35 (Apr. 1955)
5) Swift Arrow: The Dynamiters [?/Fred
Meagher] 7p reprinted from Straight
Arrow #6 (Oct. 1950)
[one
page deleted from the original printing]
6) The Two Guns Of Rio Vegas [?/Alex Toth] 8p
reprinted from Billy The Kid
#? (1950s)
2. cover:
1) The Bravados: Five Against The Guns Of Diablo [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Mike
Esposito] 10p
2) Johnny Ringo, Fearless Outlaw
[?/?] 7p
reprinted from Badmen Of Tombstone #?,
3) Kit Carson [?/?] 1p reprint from the 1950s
4) Davy Crockett [?/?]
1p reprint from the 1950s
5) Durango Kid: Flame’s Revenge [?/Fred
Guardineer] 6p reprinted from Durango Kid
#35 (Apr. 1955)
6) Man-Hunt [?/John
Forte] 7p reprint from the 1950s
7) Billy Nevada: The Doc’s Daughter [?/Tom Gill] 6p
reprinted from Billy The Kid #? (1950s)
3. cover:
1) The Bravados: Guns Of The Iron Riders [Len
Wein/Syd Shores & Mike Esposito] 10p
2) King Of The Bad Men Of
Deadwood [?/?] ?p
reprinted from King Of The Bad Men Of Deadwood #1
(1950)
3) Red Mask: Bait For Death [?/Frank Bolle] ?p
reprinted from Tim Holt/Red Mask #47 (Jan. 1955)
4) Gun-Play In
The Ghost Town [?] 1p [text
story] reprint from the 1950s
5) Durango Kid: The Blazing Eyes Of Muley Pike [?/Fred Guardineer] 6p
reprinted from Durango Kid
#35 (Apr. 1955)
6) Bat Masterson:
Jungle Adventures
1. cover: Jack Katz & Mike Esposito (Mar. 1971)
1) Zangar [
2) Taanda: The Ant Invasion [?/Louis
Ravielli] 5p reprinted from White
Princess Of The Jungle #3 (Mar.
1952)
3) Jo-Jo, The
4) Taanda: Jungle Vengeance [?/Everett
Kinstler] 7p reprinted from White
Princess Of The Jungle #2
(Nov. 1951)
5) The Blue Gorilla [?/Everett Kinstler] 6p
reprinted from White Princess Of The Jungle #3 (Mar. 1952)
2. cover: Jack Katz & Mike Esposito (May 1971)
1) Zangar: Trail Of The Golden Idol [?/Jack Katz & Vince Colletta] 11p
2) The Strange Mission To Ormuz [?/Howard
Larsen] 8p reprinted from Slave Girl
Princess #1 (Feb.
1949) [Retouched & retitled from the original. Possible comic title may have been Slave Girl
Comics.]
3) Jo-Jo, The
4) World Facts [written: ?] 1p [text
article]
5) Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle [?/Robert
Hayward Webb?] 4p reprinted from Sheena
#17 (Fall 1952)
6) Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle [?/Robert
Hayward Webb?] 6p reprinted from Jumbo
Comics #162
(Aug. 1952)
3. cover: Jack Katz & Mike Esposito (June 1971)
1) Zangar [?/Jack Katz
& ?] 12p
2) Taanda: Cult Of The
Witch Doctor! [?/Everett Kintsler] 7p reprinted from White Princess Of The
Jungle #2 (Nov. 1951)
3) Jo-Jo, The
4) The Leopard Men [?] 2p [text article] reprint from the 1950s
5) Jo-Jo, The
Butch Cassidy
1. cover: Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione (June 1971)
1) Butch Cassidy: Thunder Across The Border [Mike
Friedrich/Tom Sutton & John Tartaglione] 8p
2) The Man Who Came Back [?]
2p [text story] reprint from the 1950s
3) Maverick: The Man Who Lost Yesterday [?/Frank Bolle?--Tom Sutton? & John Forte] 4p reprint from
the 1950s
4) Vikings Out
West [?] 1p [text article] reprint from the 1950s
5) Billy Nevada: The No-Gun Sheriff [?/Don Heck] 7p
reprinted from Billy The Kid #? (1950s)
6) Wanted For Murder! [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton &
John Tartaglione] 7p
7) Butch Cassidy In
2. cover: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Aug. 1971)
1) Butch Cassidy: The Day The
Range Rained Bullets [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 15p
2) Curse Of The Lost Superstition [?/Everett Kinstler] 7p
reprint from the 1950s
3) Triple Cross [?/Paul Reinman] 6p
reprint from the 1950s
4) The Champion [?/Pete Morisi] 6p
reprint from the 1950s
5) Whip
3. cover: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Oct. 1971)
1) Butch Cassidy: And Then Came
The Sundance Kid! [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 15p
2) Butch Cassidy: One Dark, Stormy Night! [Gary
Friedrich/Ray Fuente] 5p
3) Back-Shooter For Boothill! [?] 2p
[text story] reprinted from
Black Rider #15 (July 1951)
4) Hired Gun [?/Mike
Sekowsky & Mike Peppe] 9p reprint
from the 1950s
5)
The Sundance Kid
1. cover: Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione (June 1971)
1) The Sundance Kid: Guns Of
Death [Len Wein/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 15p
2) Bulls-eye: Trial By Fire
[Jack Kirby/Jack Kirby & John Prentice] 9p
reprinted from Bulls-eye #2 (Oct.
1954)
3) Durango Kid: Killed By His Friend [?/Fred Guardineer] 7p
reprinted from Durango Kid #32 (Oct.
1954)
4) Bulls-eye: Union Jack [Jack Kirby/Jack Kirby
& John Prentice] 8p reprinted from
Bulls-eye #2 (Oct.
1954)
5) Outlaws Anonymous [?/Everett Kinstler] 1p
[text story] reprinted from
Western Outlaws #21 (May
1949)
2. cover: Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione (July 1971)
1) The Sundance Kid: The Trail Of Golden Death [Len
Wein/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 15p
2) Bulls-eye: On Target [Jack Kirby/Jack Kirby &
John Prentice] 1p reprinted from Bulls-eye
#3 (Dec.
1954)
3) Bulls-eye: Ghost Of Dead
Center [Jack Kirby/Jack Kirby & John Prentice] 7p reprinted from Bulls-eye
#3 (Dec. 1954)
4) Swift Arrow: The Boy From Back East [?/Fred Meagher] 7p
reprinted from Straight Arrow #6 (Oct.
1950) [one page deleted from original appearance]
5)
Oct.
1953)
3. cover: Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione (Sept. 1971)
1) The Sundance Kid: The Ace Of Spades Spells Death!
[Len Wein/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 15p
2) Red Hawk: The Bow That Would Not Bend! [?/? &
Bob Powell] 7p reprinted from Straight
Arrow #6
(Oct.
1950)
3) Bowie-Knife Ben! [?/?]
3p reprint from the 1950s
4) Billy The Kid [?/Mike
Sekowsky & Mike Peppe] 7p reprinted
from Billy The Kid #? (1950?)
5)
The Bravados
1. cover:
1) The Bravados: Ride To
Vengeance! [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Mike Esposito] 15p
2)
3) Red Mask: The Man Who Rescues Red Mask [?/?] 6p reprinted
from Red Mask #48 (Mar. 1955)
4) Billy Nevada: The Purple Back [?/Jack
Sparling] 7p reprinted from Billy The
Kid Adventure Magazine
#? (1950s)
5) Men Of The Law [?/Robert Stuart] 6p
reprint from the 1950s
The Heap
1. cover: Tom Sutton & Jack Abel (Sept. 1971)
1) The Heap: Shadows Of Satan [Robert Kanigher/Tom
Sutton & Jack Abel] 17p
2) When The Sea Goes Dry [?/Iger Shop] 8p
reprint from the 1950s
3) Curse Of The Broken Balcony [?/Alvin C. Hollingsworth] 5p reprinted from Strange Worlds #8 (Aug.
1952) [original title was ‘the Thing On The Borken Balcony’]
4) Death On The Earth-Mars
Run! [?/Everett Kinstler] 6p reprinted from Strange Worlds #8 (Aug.1952)
5) Ballast Of
Gold [Iger Shop/H. C. Kiefer] 4p
reprint from the 1950s
MISC.
1. cover: Mike
Hinge? & [insert] Harry Rosenblum (Mar. 1971)
1) men’s
magazine with early 1970s title info—“I Challenged The Bloodthristy Red
Butchers In India’s Land-Grab War’ and “An Occasional Affair Can Help
Your
Marriage” are
typical titles.
2. cover: photos
(July 1971)
The Horror-Mood Rap
1. cover (Apr. 1973)
[Al Hewetson] 7p in-house newsletter sent to
Augustine Funnell, Ed Fedory, Jane Lynch & Maelo
Cintron
2. cover (Oct. 1973)
[Al Hewetson] 24p in-house
newsletter sent to Augustine Funnell, Ed Fedory, Jane
Lynch & Maelo Cintron
3. cover (May 1974)
[Al Hewetson] 59p in-house newsletter sent to Augustine
Funnell, Ed Fedroy, Maelo Cintron, Sanho Kim
& Gene Day
The Horror-Mood Odyssey
1. cover: Maelo Cintron & Al Hewetson (? 1975) [edited: Harry Kramer, never published.]
Contents were to include
checklists of Nightmare, Psycho & Scream, articles on the Skywald team,
various
series, an previously unpublished 6 page story
entitled ‘Gulliver’s Island’ by Hewetson & Dennis Fujitake, several
leftover covers, a large piece of art by Gene Day, at least some segments of
the unpublished ‘Arthur Gordon Pym’ Poe adaptation by Hewetson & Cesar
Lopez and more. Publisher & editor Kramer didn’t have the money to go to print and,
after his death, the intended contents were auctioned off on ebay in 2003. Much, although not all, of this material finally
appeared in The Illustrated History Of The Skywald
Horror-Mood.
A 2003 Interview With Archaic Al Hewetson!
Could
we have some general background about yourself and your first experience with
comics?
When I was a
teenager I was a fan and published my own fanzine called THE PORTRZEBIE ANNUAL,
which was mainly all about EC and Harvey Kurtzman and the MAD artists. And during that time I managed to meet—and
then correspond regulary with—Harvey, Willy Elder, Jack Davis and other EC
artists. But I never dreamed I would
ever get into the field. I first became
aware of the Warren magazines because of Harvey Kurtzman’s HELP!, which was
published by Jim Warren, and I would often talk to Harvey about Jim when I was
a teenager, long before I met him. Many
years passed. I met Stan Lee at Marvel,
and a few months later Stan asked me to become his assistant. So I went directly from being a teenaged fan
to being on staff at Marvel in 1969, when I was around 22 years old. During [that] time I managed to meet almost
everybody I admired in
What
led you to submit stories to
While I was at
Marvel I used to write stories for other magazines, like DC comics, SICK,
CRACKED, and others, including a piece for CINEMA magazine about the history of
comic book characters on film. I knew
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND had old movie stills so I called them up, talked to
Jim Warren, and he invited me round to met him. He was very helpful providing pictures for my
feature, and we appeared to get along immediately. He asked me to write stories for EERIE and CREEPY
and I did—I sent him stories within about a week and he liked them and asked
for more. He never rejected anything I
ever wrote for him, even though I admit some of my earlier stories were pretty
flimsy.
Who
was your initial editor? What was your experience
with Jim Warren?
I only ever dealt
with Jim Warren personally. I seem to
vaguely recall dealing with Archie Goodwin about something or other, who I knew
from Marvel, but Jim was my only editor, and he didn’t actually edit anything. He’d simply ask me for stories, accept them,
and pass them along to the artists. Jim
was very pleasant during this early period but when I started writing for
Skywald he went ballistic, basically, and called me up and demanded
loyalty. He wanted to monopolize the entire
horror market—that was very apparent to everyone who dealt with him—and many of
us felt that was sheer bullshit, to demand that young writers and artists who
were selling him one or two stories a month should have no other income. I would have stopped dealing with him at that
point even if I weren’t getting along with Skywald so well. At a certain point he and I basically stopped
talking to each other.
However, I have
fond remembrances of our working relationship for a time. I gave him an original PEANUTS cartoon which
is in the background in a couple of the office photographs in THE WARREN
COMPANION, and he autographed and gave me a copy of EERIE #1, which is as much
a genuine treasure now as it was then. I
had a copy of the cover made and it appears in THE ART OF JACK DAVIS.
Later, around
1973, I got a call offering me the job of editing the
What
prompted the move to Skywald and how did you become editor of the line?
After I left
Marvel I was writing for a number of magazines, including Warren, and then Sol
Brodsky, who was now the editor at Skywald and with whom I’d worked at Marvel,
called me up and asked me to write stories for the new Skywald, which I
did. Within a very short time I became
Associate Editor, and when Sol returned to Marvel a few months later he
recommended me to the Waldmans, that I take over as editor. For the record, I had stopped writing for
Warren before I became the editor at Skywald, though probably by only two or
three months, and although they still had some unpublished stories which they
eventually published, certainly by then Jim and I had stopped talking to each
other.
Before
you became editor at Skywald, both PSYCHO & NIGHTMARE closely resembled
CREEPY & EERIE. After a short hiatus
the Skywald magazines returned with a distinct vision you called the
Horror-Mood. What exactly is your
definition of the Horror Mood?
When I became
editor I immediately wanted to make the Skywald magazines distinctly different
from Warren’s and everybody else’s titles on the newsstand—so I bundled up this
little vision within the framework of the Horror-Mood, which wasn’t patterned
after any other magazines that had ever existed, but was inspired by everything
that had ever…had the word horror applied to it. I was particularly enamored of Poe and the
classics, and by Lovecraft who wasn’t exactly ‘unknown’ at the time, but he
wasn’t exactly a household name either.
And by then I’d come to love the old EC horror comics, which I didn’t
particularly like as a kid—well, in all fairness they were published in the
early fifties which was a whole generation before my time—but I was aware of
them. So the Horror-Mood was a glass
bowl containing everything I respected about horror, including loftier writers
like Kafka and Doestroevsky and Orwell.
It’s
interesting that no one story from the Skywald magazines can be held up as an
example of the Horror-Mood. Rather, it
seems the Horror-Mood is displayed by reading a number of stories or issues
together, forming a cumulative effect of feverish, desperate trauma; very much
the stuff that H. P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe might write if they were
working today.
Right, well, you
understand the Horror-Mood perfectly.
There are, however, certain stories which were pure Horror-Mood
stories-like THE FUNERAL BARGE and KILL, KILL, KILL, AND KILL AGAIN and LIMB
FROM LIMB FROM DEATH and THE SLITHER-SLIME MAN to mention only a few—but the
remark you make about the cumulative effect is interesting, because when I took
over as editor I inherited an art drawer full of unpublished stories which Sol
had bought from various artists and writers, which were not-in-any-way
Horror-Mood type stories, but which I was obligated to use. Still, SCREAM was all Horror-Moodish, and so
were the writings of Ed Fedory and Augustine Funnell, who were my core writing
bullpen.
You
adapted a number of Poe stories but no Lovecraft tales. Were you unable to obtain the rights to those
stories? AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
would have seemed a natural for PSYCHO.
I admit I
thoroughly enjoyed adapting all those Poe stories, along with Robert Louis
Stevenson’s JEKYLL & HYDE and works by Gaston Leroux, Oscar Wilde and Henry
James—all of which were public domain.
It was like writing CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED, which I had a full set of when
I was a kid. And every one of those
stories were perfect
Horror-Mood stories. But Lovecraft
wasn’t public domain, and Skywald—surprise!—had a minuscule budget, so although
I would have enjoyed having nightmarish heart attacks adapting his works,
buying adaptation rights were never a serious question. And Lovecraft was more horror-inspirational
than the other guys anyway—so I had much more fun ‘continuing the Cthuhlu
Mythos’ with my shoggoth stories, in which I involved real Skywald people. I did that to involve the reader, and it
worked out very well.
Why
did your back cover text story THE THING IN THE ALLEY appear in both Skywald’s
NIGHTMARE #9 and
That’s incredibly
funny. We had the same printer for a
while and the printer obviously made a mistake, lifting our back cover and
dropping it into EERIE. Jim Warren
must’ve flipped his lid!
I’ll
just note here that apparently not all of the EERIE #42’s have that Skywald
back cover so they must have corrected the printing error at some point during
the printing. Now, how many pseudonyms
did you use?
I don’t know how
many, but they included Joe Dentyn, Stuart Williams, Henry Bergman, Hugh
Laskey, Harvey Lazarus and, of course, Howie Anderson. Howie was very popular with the readers—he
used to get his own fan mail!
What
were your impressions of fellow Skywald writers Ed Fedory and Augustine
Funnell?
Impressions
of Ed and Gus? Ed was emotionally disturbed and Augustine
was awkward! Seriously, they were my
friends. They were great writers and I
bought as many of their stories as I could.
The three of us were so disparate in our writing styles [that] we
complemented each other as a well-rounded package. We hung out together as much as possible, and
we’re still friends 30 years later!
Why
didn’t Gene Day, whose art seemed perfect for your books, ever do anything
beyond spot illustrations?
Gene Day was
working towards full stories. He wrote
and illustrated a number of single pages himself, only some of which got
published before we went out of business.
Gene and I had discussed his doing full length stories before we closed
our doors. …The Eaters by Funnell &
Day was scheduled for a Skywald magazine but we closed our doors about the
point Gene finished the pencils. Later
it was posthumously published in the third issue of Gene Day’s BLACK ZEPPELIN,
with Gene’s brother David completing the inking for the artwork.
What
can you tell us about the proposed Skywald titles such as SCIENCE FICTION
ODYSSEY, TOMB OF HORROR & TALES OF HORROR BY EDGAR ALLAN POE?
Sol was working on
SCIENCE FICTION ODYSSEY when I started working for Skywald but it was cancelled
right before it was to be sent to press, because Skywald had over-extended its
budget on the color comics, and because nobody around the office thought a
science fiction magazine would sell.
However, I managed to use ALL the stories scheduled for this magazine in
[either] PSYCHO, SCREAM or NIGHTMARE, including the
cover by Jeff Jones.
We were doing so
well on the newsstands that at one point we wanted to introduce a couple of new
titles, and TOMB OF HORROR was one of them.
I was going to have the writers and artists introduce each story, which
I don’t think anyone had ever done [actually Marvel had used something similar
for a very brief period in the latter issues of TOWER OF SHADOWS & CHAMBER
OF DARKNESS—RA]. And the POE magazine
was to reprint our Poe and Stevenson and Wilde and Leroux adaptations as
collector issues---not necessarily as a continuing monthly magazine. By about the fall of ’74 when the writing was
on the wall for us we shelved the idea of introducing new magazines and I used
up as many stories as I could in the last issues of NIGHTMARE, PSYCHO &
SCREAM, which perhaps explains why our last couple of issues seem such a
hodgepodge.
What
caused the collapse of the Skywald line?
Marvel’s
distributor. Our issues were selling well, and some sold
out. Such returns as we received were
shipped overseas, mainly to
When Marvel
entered the game with countless titles gutting the newsstand, their distributor
was so powerful they denied Skywald access to all but the very largest
newsstands, so our presence was minimal and fans and readers simply couldn’t find us.
You
have a book coming out about your Skywald years…
It’s called THE
COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SKYWALD HORROR-MOOD and it’s a big,
handsome, 225 page book with 21 complete stories by our best artists, new
recollections by Ed Fedory [and] Gus Funnell, new interviews with Pablo Marcos
and Maelo Cintron, features and critiques by David Kerekes, Stephen Sennitt and
Peter Normanton, a complete (and exhaustive) checklist including all the
covers, a feature about my meeting with Fredric Wertham, loads of unpublished art and photographs, and a
beautiful, original, full color wraparound painting by Pablo Marcos. All the behind-the-scenes information you
could ever want—including loads of interesting details about guys like Harvey
Kurtzman, Stan Lee and Mr. James Warren.
It’ll be out in late 2004, and you can get a discount if you order
directly from the publisher at www.headpress.com .
Thanks for the plug. I think
Do
you have any future plans for comic work?
Yes. Having been unearthed after 25-30 years of
living and working in the ‘normal’ world, I’m please to be re-partnered with
two of my old cohorts Pablo Marcos and Maelo Cintron on two new comic books,
both due out during 2004.
Pablo and I are
completing LABYRINTH STREET, an anthology series with an ensemble cast about a
weird street in
Speaking
of the Human Gargoyles, your most popular Skywald characters, they weren’t
really horror characters, were they?
I suppose not. The series was more of a social satire than a
horror story. But they sure fit
comfortably into that glass bowl called the Horror-Mood.
Thank
you, Mr. Hewetson. And that’s all,
folks!
* * *
Sadly,
less than a month after this interview, Mr. Hewetson passed away on Jan. 6,
2004 from a massive heart attack. During
the last couple of months of his life we emailed each other several times a day
regarding his upcoming book as well as sharing notes to complete his book’s
appendix and make this checklist as complete as possible. He was a warm and generous gentleman and
he’ll be missed.
Al Hewetson: A Remembrance
by Richard J. Arndt
Well, first, I never actually met Al
Hewetson. In 2003 I posted a Skywald
Checklist on the internet (at www.enjolrasworld.com) and Al contacted me to
see if I knew how to get in touch with Skywald artist Maelo Cintron. I didn’t, but posted his interest on the
website. A couple of weeks later Maelo
emailed me with his addresses and I passed those along to Al. In Nov. 2003 I asked Al if I could interview him for an
issue of the
One of the last stories he told me was of
artist
Al was in the process of re-entering the
comic field after 25 years, writing two comics—
Take care, Al.*
*
Written for & published in Comic Book Artist.
A 2004 Interview with Ed Fedory!
Thank you for the interview,
Ed Fedory. Can you give us some
background on your early life? What was
your first encounter with comics?
I grew up on Long Island in
How did you become a
professional comic writer? What was it
like to see your work in print for the first time?
I always enjoyed
writing down my thoughts, but was never much of a reader until I got out of
high school. When I went to college I
began reading everything I could get my hands on…fiction…nonfiction. I read a lot of H. P. Lovecraft and, of
course, Bram Stoker. I had a job as a
nightwatchman at an old mill in
How did your contacts with
After that story was published, I got a letter from one of
the editors at
What was your experience with
the
My experiences at
You had three stories
published in Creepy, then you switched over to the
Skywald books and wrote quite a few for them.
Why so few for
Actually, I wrote six stories for
Did you work for any other
comic publishers?
Yes, I worked, briefly, for Atlas [Seaboard] Comics. Did the origin issue of Hands Of The Dragon…Kung Fu stuff was very vogue then. I did the second issue, and they cut my pay rate in half. Packed my bags after that one and didn’t write for the next three years. Actually, that was the last time I ever wrote a comic book. The experience at Atlas left a lousy taste in my mouth.
Did you have any favorite
comic artists or writers starting out?
I always loved Berni Wrightson’s artwork…Frank Frazetta’s covers…Steve Ditko’s style. I used to look forward to each issue of Dr. Strange.
How did your contact with
Skywald begin?
My contact with Skywald began pretty simply…I had already
been published at
Skywald was noted for the
almost-feverish application of the ‘horror-mood’, making their horror stories
somewhat unique in the field. Did
Hewetson ever give you an explanation of exactly what the ‘horror-mood’ was?
That is a very interesting question. I am not sure you could pin it down to any one thing, or series of things. It was a sense of the macabre…something quite intangible. I’m not sure Al could answer that question. It was very fluid and seemed to be always changing. I guess you just had to be a kind of ‘cork’…you followed the current of the waters and floated along with it. I could never tell where Al was going with the ‘horror-mood’…the Gargoyles idea kind of blew me away…never saw it coming…but the next thing I knew, Al and I were down on the shores of the Hudson River picking up all the rounded egg-shaped stones and sending them to readers as Gargoyle eggs! Go figure…what a hoot!
What was your understanding
about why Skywald ceased publication?
I don’t know the answer to that question. I had a sense that they wanted to steamline their publishing operation and just work on the line of coloring books they were putting out. I was never very privy to that end of the business…I was a grunt in the line…following orders…not part of the brass making command decisions. I liked it that way.
Do you still keep up with
comics today?
No, I’m sorry to say that I don’t. You don’t see them on the stands at your local drugstore anymore. I kind of miss that. I do think about them, however. Wish I had a few old issues of Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. That comic had a lot of ‘heart’…very good scripting, storylines and great artwork.
What are you doing
today?
Well, a lot. I just retired after 32 years of teaching grade 6…mostly history and English. I have continued to write all of these years and have a monthly column called The Relic Hunter in a magazine called Western And Eastern Treasures. Basically, I visit places of historic significance with a metal detector, and write about my fines and experiences. I dig sites dating back to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. I also re-enact. We dress up in colonial period costumes…have mock battles, and attempt to live as people did during colonial times. It’s a lot of fun. I also have a big barn with a woodshop, and I am constantly working on projects…my tractors…and taking care of 36 chickens. It’s all very interesting and I never know what I’m going to be doing next. Who knows…maybe one of these days I’ll even write another horror comic story! You just never know!
Thank you again, Ed Fedory!
A 2004 Interview with Augustine Funnell!
Thanks for taking the time
for this interview. First, can we have a
little background on your early life and interests?
Until I was thirteen I lived in the country in
When I was thirteen, my family moved into the nearby town of Gananoque, but since that was the year I started high school, it meant that Gene was also starting, and he hopped onto a school bus every morning and headed into the same town for the same school. We certainly weren’t inseparable, or even absolute best buddies, but we sure did spend a lot of time together.
I was interested in sports (hockey and baseball) and—naturally—reading. The Hardy Boys, Edgar Rice Burroughs
fantasies, adventure stuff, sf. I
remember reading my first copy of an old Doc Savage pulp in about 1963 or 1964
and I got hooked on that stuff right jeezly quickly. Gene
had liberated it from an abandoned
farmhouse (ironically, the house had been my grandfather’s for a long time
before.) That stuff took us in
additional directions.
How
did you become interested in comics?
As I mentioned, my
interest in comics was the natural one which most kids have, nourished through
contact with a like-minded kid in Gene Day.
It just seemed natural to us that we should write and draw our own.
How
did your contact with Skywald come about?
Skywald came about
for no other reason than because from early childhood I wanted to write for a living, and comic stories were one of the things I wanted to
write. I would come up with scripts,
fire ‘em into the postal orifice, and in due time get them back whence they had
been sent, with the usual notes about the script not fitting current needs, or
no additional material being needed. But
when one has done a thing for almost as long as he can remember, and he’s not
really good anything else (not that I was all that good at writing comics,
either), he just keeps plugging away. Which I did. I sent
out mainly horror scripts, addressed to anyone who was publishing horror
comics. Skywald was one of the possible
publishers on my list.
Who
were your contacts at Skywald? What was
your experience with editorial?
My first contact
at Skywald was Jeff Rovin, who was the first editor who showed any
interest. But before I could write
anything good enough for him to buy, he was replaced by Al Hewetson, who early
in the game informed me that while he liked some of my stuff, he was doing
virtually all of the writing, and that since there was no money budgeted for
anyone else anyway, he couldn’t afford to buy anything. I had another script ready to go when I got
this particular rejection letter, so I just wrote back to tell him hat while I
understood that Skywald couldn’t afford to buy anything, I couldn’t afford not to
send things. Therefore, please consider
the enclosed story…
I don’t remember
too much editorial interference, really.
I would say that easily 95% of the time I sent off a story Al either
bought it or returned it (mostly that second thing) . For the miniscule rest he suggested or
insisted upon changes. For the most part
I think he saw my stuff as a bit of balance for what he was writing…a different
slant, or a different style, or a different something, so it pretty much went
through as submitted. Which
doesn’t mean that there weren’t suggestions…there were lots of those. But interference of the usual writer-bitching-about-an-editor? Not much.
I do remember titles were a big thing for Al, and he did occasionally
suggest something less mundane than what I had used. But as time went on I got a better feel for
what he wanted, and I was able to come up with titles [that] suited us both. At least, they suited me then. Now, I’m not so sure…
Your
serial, ‘Monster, Monster’, was never concluded. Was an ending written? Where did you see the story going?
That
serial. Phuck. I didn’t think when I wrote it that it was
all that good and today, upon reflection, I see no real reason to think
otherwise. It was just…I don’t
know. Goofy. The first story or two were okay, but it
never felt like it had any cohesion, which made me feel like I wasn’t playing
fair. Al did make some suggestions for
the series (I can’t remember if I used them or not, but I suspect I did). He liked series material to be a little on
the convoluted side, and while I have no objections to convoluted storytelling,
I didn’t feel that I did a very good job with this one. But Al seemed to like it and there might have
been two fan letters, so I plugged away.
And occasionally, even today, I will get the occasional email note
complimenting the series. So there may
be a jot or a little more to the series than I give it credit for, but I have
my doubts.
An ending wasn’t
exactly written, but one was certainly outlined, and the series was definitely
going to end. It was some convoluted,
nonsensibal thing which, at present, I honestly can’t remember. But when Skywald went tits-up Al asked me to
write something about the series and my experiences with Skywald so I did. He sent that essay back to me almost thirty
years later to be updated for the ‘Complete Illustrated History of the Skywald
Horror-Mood’ which David Kerekes of Headpress is putting out. If anyone is truly interested in how that
lunacy was going to play out, it’s in the book.
I remember there was a twist of some sort (what are the odds?????), but
I can’t remember the details.
Was
‘The Eaters’ story you did with Gene Day intended for Skywald or for Orb? Orb advertised the story for the never
published 7th issue but it seemed much more like a Skywald
tale. I ask because I’ve heard several
different versions for that story’s origin & intended publication.
According to
Renegade Press, which eventually published the story in ‘Gene Day’s Black
Zeppelin’, it was written for Skywald.
Then I believe Orb showed interest, but went the way of the dodo before
anything could happen. Me, I just don’t
remember for certain (I had a lot of stories that were going to be published somewhere, but never were). So flip a coin. If everyone else says it was Skywald-bound,
who am I to argue? Writers can’t be
relied upon for accuracy where their stories are concerned, anyway.
Do
you have a favorite story personally?
I have to say,
again, in all honesty that I’m not too enthusiastic about most of my
stuff. There may have been potential in
some of the stories, but I don’t believe that it was fully realized. If you put a gun to my head and insisted that
I pick one, I suppose that I would carefully weigh the advantages of answering
or not, and if I opened my mouth the words ‘You Can’t Judge A Killer By The
Corpse’ or ‘Down To Hades To Die’ might come out. Maybe.
Whose
work in comics did (and do) you like?
Archie
Goodwin’s stuff. Frazetta, of course. Denny O’Neil’s stuff. I though our own Ed Fedory was pretty
good. Wrightson. Tom Sutton.
Early Jack Kirby. Steve Ditko.
John Severin.
Pablo Marcos and Maelo Cintron, naturally. Will Eisner.
Jeff Jones. It occurs to me a
complete list would take far too long. I
liked an awful lot of people. Of course,
there were guys whose work left one cold as death in a freezer, but there’s no
point in listing that crew. These days I’m not reading much in the way of
comic material, but I must admit some fondness for the work John Gallagher [of
Chimera Arts] is putting out. Outside
the comic field I’ve read across the board.
Mark Twain, Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas
Harris, John Irving, John Kendrick Bangs, John D. MacDonald, P. J. O’Rourke,
Henry Kuttner, Fredric Brown and so on and so forth.
When
Skywald folded, did you look elsewhere for comic work?
Yes, I did, but
without too much luck. Charlton
published a story. Orb. And Seaboard [Atlas], where Jeff Rovin was
working, also bought one. But it was
tough going, so I concentrated a little more on short stories and longer prose
works for the sf/fantasy/horror markets.
I’d always written those anyway, of course, even while working in
comics, but since there seemed no future for me in comics, I concentrated more
on them.
Please
bring us up to date. What are you doing
now?
Well, after that
complete domination of the comic book world I mentioned. I wrote a lot
of prose stuff, and fairly quickly drifted away for comics. I sold a couple of inane sf/adventure novels,
and about a dozen sf/fantasy/horror stories/novelettes to a variety of
magazines. Two of the stories were
included in a couple of year’s best anthologies, but that sounds more impressive than it is.
In total, I guess I spent about twenty-five years writing as much as I
could, and that’s my oeuve. Except for a
killer drug poem in Rolling Stone, that is.
I’m one of the horde of people who put all their energies into writing
for ‘X’ length of time, had just enough success to keep them in the vain hope
that they might be able to pull off an actual living at it, but who in the end
just didn’t have enough cookies to make up a whole chocolate chip package. But that’s okay…some people don’t even have
the chips. As [for] these days, when I’m
not drinking or serving time in prison, I am a form of life even lower than a
writer of horror comics: I’m a bookseller.
I have an on-line business [www.gusbooks.com], and I deal in used,
collectable and out-of-print titles. As
when I wrote, I spent weeks trying to come up with just the right combination
of words to name my business, and finally settled on something I feel certain
no one else could have created: Augustine Funnell Books.
RA:
Thanks, Gus, for the interview and some fondly remembered stories.
An
Interview With Maelo Cintron!
RA: Hello, Mr. Cintron. Could you tell us a little
of your background?
MC: Well, I was
born in
RA:
When did you first get involved with comics?
MC: I became
involved with comics early, not because I read them, but because of the
art. Whenever I picked up a comic and
disliked the art, I would put it down and look for something else. At that time, I particularly liked the art in
some of the Western comics, as well as some of the Superman comics. Although I loved the art in the EC horror
comics, I stayed away from them, fearing that I would have nightmares.
RA:
How did you get involved with Skywald and Al Hewetson? Was that your comics
debut?
MC: At that time, I was reading the Warren magazines, loving the
artwork of people like Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams and Al Williamson. I then became inspired to do comics, so I
thought I’d give it a shot, and possibly make a few bucks. At Skywald, I had called to make an
appointment to see Sol Brodsky, but he was moving back to Marvel. However, Alan Hewetson met me instead, buying a one-page sampler that I created called
‘Game Of Skill’.
RA:
I remember that one! Who was the
“Kinsman” who wrote it?
MC: The “Kinsman”
was my ex-wife, Joan. Kinsman was her
maiden name, so I used that. Sometime
afterwards, we also did a vampire story called ‘Daughter Of
Darkness’, which she received credit for writing.
RA:
Can you tell us about your work on the Human Gargoyles?
MC: When I first
started working on the Gargoyles, I hated it because I pretty much had no idea
what I was doing. I also hated it
because it was taking forever. However,
as I went along I felt that my artwork started to improve. I continued to work on it, and the work
itself became easier for me. Thus I
started to enjoy it.
RA:
Were there any unpublished chapters of the Gargoyles? I know there was one cover for a special
featuring them that wasn’t published.
MC: There was one
Gargoyle chapter that wasn’t used because the magazine folded. I remember trying to buy it back later on,
but was told that the art was put away in some warehouse, and they {the
Waldmans} did not know where it was. The
Gargoyle cover that wasn’t published was by a Spanish artist by the name of
Vicente Segrelles. I too did some work
on it, changing some of the colors, and the Human Gargoyle pose, increasing its
animation.
RA:
What was your understanding as to what the Horror-Mood was?
MC: Spooky. The only thing Al ever said to me was “good,
put in more spider’s webs! Have people drooling from their mouths!”
RA:
What was your impression of Al Hewetson?
MC: Al was a
mild-mannered individual. I liked him
from the start. We had great plans for
the future.
RA:
When Skywald folded, did you move on to any other comic companies?
MC: When Skywald
folded, I concentrated on doing paperback covers and magazine covers. This is due to the fact that I thought I
wouldn’t be able to make a living doing comics, being as they were so
time-consuming for me. I began making
the rounds of publishers.
I sold my first
three pieces to
RA:
Shortly before his death, Al contacted me to see if I knew where you could be
located, because he wanted to do a new Gargoyle story with you. Several weeks later, you contacted me and I
passed along your address. I know the
story was started. Was it ever
finished? Is there any possibility of it
being published?
MC: After he contacted me and told me about the book he was
publishing about the Skywald Horror-Mood period, we talked a lot over the
internet. We began speaking about
bringing back the Human Gargoyles, making it take place out West. The original Human Gargoyle baby would be all
grown up, working as a
RA:
What comic artists or writers did or do you enjoy? Do you still keep up with the field?
MC:
I enjoy the work of artists like Alex Ross, and old timers like Alex Toth, Al
Williamson, Neal Adams, and many of the Spanish artists. I
don’t keep up too well with writers.
RA:
Any final thoughts or words?
MC: Not really. I’d just like to say that it is very sad and unfortunate that Al passed away before seeing his book, The Complete Illustrated History Of The Skywald Horror-Mood published. He would have loved it.
RA: Thank you, Mr.
Cintron.
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