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Ugh. I wish these things had stayed under copyright so we wouldn't have to host them. Lousy stories, bottom of the barrel art despite several good artists are shoehorned in, an an overall sleazy attitude. |
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Well, we don;t have to host them.
[Lousy stories, bottom of the barrel art despite several good artists are shoehorned in, an an overall sleazy attitude.] That was exactly why I didn't pick those up back in the day. Shunned them actually.
But all comics are history and I don't believe in censoring history. My attitude now is that overall they are still not my thing, but I can find a lot to like and to find out from them.
Quite likely a lot of the creators would have preferred to be doing something else, but hey, you have to eat.
This was Brodsky and Waldman's company and if you look at the names listed on page 3 they are all people who at that time were primarily associated with Marvel. This implies a degree of dissatisfaction with Marvel that in most of the 'Histories' goes unsaid.
It's also clear that Brodsky and Waldman did not have Stan Lee's abilities. Not by a long shot. I also understand that their timing was pretty lousy. |
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Bill Everett one page pin-up. Grotesque but terrific. |
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I saw the old Skywald stuff and was a bit excited, I have the other Nightmare issues, i love them but do not want to upload items the site itself does not want... suggestions and feedback appreciated. I have not uploaded any comics since I had nothing to contribute, want to contribute |
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I’ve been an avid comic reader since the early 70ies. Always avoided Skywald (except for Devilina) until now. I’m finding this underrated stratum of comics history fascinating. At the moment I’m the familiarity of the Marvel bullpenners and Lovecraft references as well as the callbacks to golden age characters. |
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I bought and read the black & white comics from Skywald when they were first published. I liked them then and I like them now. I no longer have copies of these comics so I'm grateful that you are hosting these comics today. Thank you. |
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"The Creature Within" is lifted from "The Nightmare" published in Black Magic and Eerie in 1952
the artist re-inks over the pencils with some minor adjustments like adding pupils and hair where there wasn't any
not bad, but strange to see something straight from the 50s show up in these skywald titles |
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The majority of the stories are reprints from the '50s, but with retouched art in most cases. Bill Everett's new illustrations are pretty good -- I still like his work from the late '40s thru the first half of the 1950s the most, but he was a fine artist even in his final years (passing away in 1973). |
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Additional Information |
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Publication | December 1970 | Price: 0.50 USD | Pages: 1 |
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Cover | Pollution Monsters! |
Credits | Pencils: Brendan Lynch? (painting) | Inks: Brendan Lynch? (painting) | Colors: Brendan Lynch? (painting) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | The Pollution Monsters (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Satan invents a special fuel that, when mixed with pollution, spawns pollution monsters. |
Notes | Writer credit by Richard Arndt.
Cover story. |
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Comic Story | Master of the Dead! (6 pages) |
Synopsis | An insane man raises the dead soldiers from a military cemetery who turn on him when he wants them to help him rule the world. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Artwork signed in the original. |
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Comic Story | Dance Macabre (6 pages) |
Synopsis | A couple perform a forbidden dance ritual for their theater act which angers the nearby restless spirits. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Original title: "Crimson Death." Bill Everett drew a new first panel and redrew the faces and figures of the main characters throughout. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.
Artwork signed in the original. |
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Comic Story | Orgy of Blood (8 pages) |
Synopsis | A man is chained to a bed and is forced to be living food for a vampire woman and her daughter and mother. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Possible Katz pencils per Nick Caputo. Richard Arndt credited Ross Andru. Original indexer credited Chic Stone. Arndt also credited Ross Andru and Mike Esposito with script. |
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Illustration | A Nightmare Pin-Up (1 page) |
Synopsis | A ghoul digs up a grave. |
Featuring | Graveghoul |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Graveghoul |
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Text Story | The Skeletons of...Doom! (3 pages) |
Synopsis | Isis is amassing an army of living skeletons in an underground city to conquer the surface world. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Pencil info by Richard Arndt. Art re-used for a house ad in The 1974 Psycho Yearbook (Skywald, 1974 series) #1. |
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Comic Story | Help Us to Die! (6 pages) |
Synopsis | A greedy man and his female friend steal the magic elixir from a living mummy in order to have eternal life. They become mummies themselves. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Andru and Esposito provided some alterations in some panels. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015. |
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Comic Story | The Thing from the Sea! (7 pages) |
Synopsis | A man murders his rival by throwing him off a ship. The victim returns as a waterlogged zombie looking for revenge. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | "Attributed to Wood in The Wally Wood Checklist & The Wally Wood Treasury but I don’t really see Wood’s hand anywhere in this story." (Richard Arndt). Andru and/or Esposito altered several panels in this story. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015. |
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Comic Story | The Creature Within! (3 pages) |
Synopsis | A playwright conjures up a monster during his play that kills him. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Original title: "The Nightmare of Nathan Foxx." Esposito splash art and extensive alterations per Nick Caputo, September 2015. |
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Comic Story | The Deadly Mark of the Beast! (8 pages) |
Synopsis | A werewolf is prowling the nearby moors killing the townsfolk. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Script and pencils info by Richard Arndt. Previous indexer credited Tom Palmer on pencils. |
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Featuring | Nightmares’s Nightmail |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Letters written before the first issue appeared from "writers, artists and other interested parties". Includes editorial by Herschel Waldman. |
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