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| Whoa! Dave Sim of Cerebus the Aardvark fame submits a script on page 46! |
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| SanHo Kim - very ideosyncratic artist.
Reading these, I deduce -
One . That they mainly used Filipino artists, many of whom never had long careers outside their own country.
The overall standard of the art is quite high. And that accounts for it.
Two. that most of the other creators were either breaking into the field or older guys having trouble - through no fault of their own - staying in the field.
Three. That the fact that many of these only did only one or two stores tells me that either the pay stank or Hewetson was difficult to work for or probably both.
Anyway, when all is said and done they left behind some interesting work. Great to see it here.
Cheers. |
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| The page supposedly illustrating SAKI's 'Srendi Vastar' is an example of everything I hate about these kinds of books. The story and the writing of 'SAKI' is witty, clever and Sublime. Drawing the creature is pointless and self-defeating. You need to create it in the mind from the words on the page. And a one-page illustration is devoid of context. and it is quite meaningless devoid of context. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1975 | Price: 1.00 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: eight times a year |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Credits | Script: Saki (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Frontispiece. Consisted of a brief bit of prose from a horror writer (in this case, "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki) and a full page illo for that bit. |
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| Comic Story | ... a Fragment in the Life of Dracula... within the Dungeons of Castle Dracula! (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Dracula |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Monster, Monster, Chapter 7: Visions of Bloody Death (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Monster, Monster |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Daughter of Darkness (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Book of the Dead! (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | From Hell to Eternity! (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Cry of the White Wolf (6 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils: Luis Collado [as Stan Connerty] | Inks: Luis Collado [as Stan Connerty] |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Dave Sim made his professional debut with this story, 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". |
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| Featuring | Psycho Mailbag |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Mentioned Basil Wolverton’s ‘Barflyze’ book, previewed a pencil sketch for a never published cover by Boada and mentioned that upcoming stories (never published) would be written by former EC writer Carl Wessler and former Warren editor/writer J. R. Cochran. Boada's finished cover appeared in the Spanish magazine Dossier Negro #76. |
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| Comic Story | ...if I Should Die Before I Wake... (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Fiend of Changsha Chapter Two: Dead by Day -- Fiend by Night (8 pages) |
| Featuring | The Fiend Of Changsha |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Continued from Psycho #21. Serial never finished. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Werewolf Ad (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Same as back cover of Nightmare #23, advertising an upcoming (but never published) original illustrated novel. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Psycho Next Issue Ad (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Back cover: Same art as Nightmare #23’s frontispiece. 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. |
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