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| Some really good / bad Black & White art. The high moments are worth it. (multiple artists)
Especially the story 300th Birthday Party, wow, the line work and use of grays. (spoilers: Cecille turns out to be so shallow!!!)
The previous stories are neat too, but that one is impressive & there's some garbage in there. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1972 | Price: 0.60 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | Skull-Forest of Old Earth! |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Featuring | Mr. Pook |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Mr. Pook |
| Notes | Frontispiece and titlepage. Introduces a horror host, later named Mr. Pook, for Nightmare. The contents page features the first mention of the term "horror-mood" in this title. |
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| Comic Story | Markheim (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Art credited to Duran, with a signature that looks like D. Duran, but the D could be a stylised J. |
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| Comic Story | The Nightmare World Of James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Nightmare World |
| Credits | Script: James Edgar (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | From a dream by James Edgar. "Nightmare World" began a semi-regular series in which readers sent in their nightmare, which were then adapted into stories. |
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| Comic Story | The Guillotine (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Zoo for the Beasts of the Universe (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Cintron’s professional debut. |
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| Letters Page | Lunatic Letters’ Page [+ Editorial] (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Skull Forest of Old Earth (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | 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. |
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| Text Article | The Abominable Dr. Phibes (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Text article with photos. |
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| Text Article | Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The 300th Birth Day Party (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Gargoyle Trilogy (11 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | The three parts of the story are titled: The Grotesque Gargoyle: The 1st Tale; And Starts 2: The Idiot Gargoyle!; and ..Now Starts the 3rd... the Darkness Gargoyle...
Although the gargoyles are identical, this story has nothing to do with the Human Gargoyles series. Next issue with the Gargoyles is Nightmare #10. Part 1 of 9? |
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| Comic Story | The Night in the Wax Museum (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | The artist’s name is variously spelled with one or two L’s. |
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| Comic Story | Dracula (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Werewolf Within (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | There was no feature logo in this story, but this was the first appearance for the Darkkos Manse (called Darkkos Mansion in the last page of the story). |
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| Publisher advertisement | horror-suspenseAd for Nightmare #10 (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Next issue advertisement. |
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| Text Story | The Thing in the Alley (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Back cover. Due to a printer's error this story also appears in Warren's Eerie #42 in the same month. Art originally intended for Skywald's unpublished Science Fiction Odyssey #1. |
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