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| Name | Nightmare 2 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.50 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | No credits, but the authors’ list includes Wayne Benedict; Marv Wolfman; Mike Friedrich; Noel Haven; Ross Andru & Mike Esposito; Gardner Fox & Phil Seuling. (Richard Arndt). All info used by permission of Richard Arndt. Reprinted stories all heavily retouched and modernized to 1970s looks for hair & clothes. Some re-lettering in places, including the bolding of a word here and there. Some of the originally typeset stories have been completely hand re-lettered. Additional information for this index submitted by Flashjay. |
| Cover | The Circle of Circe! / 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Boris Vallejo (painting) (signed) |
| Inks | Boris Vallejo (painting) (signed) |
| Colors | Boris Vallejo (painting) (signed) |
| Comic Story | Children Of The Cold Gods! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A scientist working for the government is devising a way to keep bodies cryogenically frozen to endure space travel. One day the temperatures have dropped below absolute zero causing the bodies that are frozen to break apart. It is then revealed that beings from an icy dimension have entered our universe and caused the subfreezing temperatures. They then reassemble all the broken bodies and turn them into misshapen invulnerable monsters to help them conquer our dimension. The scientist is able to increase the temperature to the point where the misshapen monsters become perpetually frozen. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Ross Andru Mike Esposito |
| Pencils | Ross Andru |
| Inks | Mike Esposito |
| Letters | Irv Watanabe |
| Notes | The scientist's wife became one of the monsters. This is why every year he goes to the sealed cryogenic lab to leave a rose. The ice beings are depicted as frosty humanoids. |
| Comic Story | The Phantom of Philip Hawks (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Philip Hawks was outraged that Mary Kane wouldn't be his girl and attacked her. Her fiance stepped in and killed him. Hawks vowed revenge and his vengeful spirit took over her brand new vessel killing her, her husband, and the crew. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Alvin Hollingsworth Mike Esposito (see notes) |
| Inks | Alvin Hollingsworth Mike Esposito (see notes) |
| Letters | Jean Simek |
| Notes | Art signed in the original. Alterations by Mike Esposito. Mary Kane's ship was built by her father and was named after her. The story is mostly told in flashback as the crew of the "Della" find the "Mary Kane" with her dead passengers and piece together the story from log and diary entries. They then get attacked by Philip Hawks' spirit. |
| Comic Story | The Mirror of Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Steve Lajos was a handsome sailor but an evil man who loved to kill women and sell their jewels whenever he was at a port. One day he got stationed in the orient and saw the temple of "Struga of the Seven Hands". The keeper of the temple told him about an enchanted mirror in the temple that shows the gazer how their soul looks. Lajos was horrified to see his reflection as a grotesque monster. He killed the temple keeper and smashed the mirror, only to find himself trapped in it for all eternity. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Mike Esposito (see notes) Norman Nodel ? |
| Inks | Mike Esposito (see notes) Vince Alascia |
| Letters | Jean Simek |
| Notes | New art/alterations by Mike Esposito. |
| Comic Story | The Circle Of Circe! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | In ancient Greece, after being defeated by Zakro the barbarian giant, Ulysses is forced to go to the island of Aeaea to find the "Golden Tusks of Atlas. There Ulysses and his men are attacked by the sorceress Circe and her Amazon warriors. Eventually Ulysses and his men are overcome and they are turned into wolves by Circe herself. She and her Amazons also turn into wolves and head into their starship. You see Circe is from a world of intelligent wolves who came to Earth to find human males to mate with, in order to restore her planet's population. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Syd Shores |
| Inks | Mike Esposito |
| Letters | Irv Watanabe |
| Notes | Circe attacks Ulysses with a dragon and a giant snake; illusions brought to form by her magic. Cover story. |
| Illustration | Nightmare Pin Up #2 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A drawing of the Creature From the Black Lagoon carrying off a woman. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | The Gill Man [aka The Creature From the Black Lagoon] |
| Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Letters | Irv Watanabe |
| Text Story | Time Stop (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Fradkin helps Dr. Vetry uncover an ancient tomb to find the mummy Anubis and learn about eternal life. When Anubis attacks, Fradkin destroys it with a pickaxe revealing it to be a robot. Enraged, Vetry reveals he is an alien from the planet Frelm V and has come to learn about eternal life to stop his masters on his home world. Fradkin is contacted by the Frelmian council who give him the means to destroy Vetry. Fradkin does so, but finds out Vetry was actually trying to help his people against the alien council who plan on hoarding immortality for themselves to conquer worlds. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Art Stampler |
| Comic Story | Blood For The Vampire (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the Tyrolean Alps, a couple finds an abandoned baby in the woods. The Lustvegs adopt the baby and name it Eric. As Eric grows up he becomes evil and violent. He begins to murder, including killing his adoptive parents and sister. He is condemned to death but kills himself before he can be executed. This causes him to be resurrected as a vampire. He terrorizes the area for years until a couple from America show up at his abode. The man stakes Eric, but since he uses more than one blow to hammer the stake, Eric survives and flees to America where he is still at large. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Norman Nodel Mike Esposito (see notes) |
| Inks | Vince Alascia Mike Esposito (see notes) |
| Letters | Jean Simek |
| Notes | Esposito new art/alterations per Nick Caputo, September 2015. |
| Comic Story | The Massacre Of Mankind! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Man has created robots to do his bidding, but the robots gain independent thought and begin to turn on humanity killing and destroying. A small band of survivors flee led by the son of a dead scientist. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Walter Gibson |
| Pencils | Gene Fawcette Bill Everett (see notes) |
| Inks | Gene Fawcette Bill Everett (see notes) |
| Letters | Jean Simek |
| Notes | First chapter of three-part story. Extensive alterations on main characters and robots by Bill Everett. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015. In the original story the robots are quite silly looking with oversized clown-like heads and red trousers. Here they were redrawn to look more like classic robots. |
| Comic Story | Pressed For Time (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ephraim began to practice the occult at a young age. Why? Because he desperately wanted eternal life. In his adult years he finally gained the attention of Satan who bestowed upon him his wish of eternity. When the townsfolk arrest him for his crimes, they sentence Ephraim to death by crushing. As Ephraim's body began to break under the weight of the rocks, he realizes he can't die and will suffer for all eternity. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Marv Wolfman |
| Pencils | Dan Adkins (signed) |
| Inks | Dan Adkins (signed) |
| Letters | Irv Watanabe |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
