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| IMHO the greatest single issue of a B & W horror comic ever published. |
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| Publication | August 1973 | Price: 0.75 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Article | Prologue To A Scream (1 page) |
| Credits | Colors:? (solid purple) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Frontispiece. According to Hewetson’s introduction, Scream #1 was put together in response to readers’ opinions as expressed in the Bunch Of Questions survey and was Phase 3 of the Horror-Mood. |
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| Text Article | Welcome To Scream #1 (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Text article with one photo. |
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| Comic Story | I, Slime (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | This Archaic Breeding Ground... (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | ...Hickory Dickory Dock... (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Where Lunatics Live (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Skeleton In the Desert (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Tale Of The Perfect Crime (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Comics Macabre (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Featured lead characters based on ‘Seduction Of The Innocent’ author Fredric Wertham and Comics Code Authority president Len Darvin as well as Al Hewetson, Herschel Waldman & other Skywald staffers. In the story Darvin and Wertham visit the Skywald offices to complain about the horror comics being published, get into an argument and kill Hewetson whereupon tiny versions of Skywald’s Heap, Frankenstein’s Monster and others come off comic pages in the Skywald offices and kill Wertham and Darvin. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fredric Wertham; Len Darvin; Al Hewetson; Herschel Waldman; Skywald staffers; Heap; Frankenstein's Monster |
| Notes | Hewetson sent a copy of the story to Wertham, with whom he corresponded for a number of years but, according to Hewetson, Wertham didn’t get the point. |
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| Comic Story | The Strange Paintings Of Jay Crumb (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Spoof/takeoff on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb. |
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| Comic Story | Scream (1 page) |
| Credits | Colors:? (solid blue) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Back cover |
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