Nightmare #9

(October 1972)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mr. Pook / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Pablo Marcos

Inks:

Pablo Marcos

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

Mr. Pook

Indexer 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.

Markheim (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Louis Stevenson (author); Al Hewetson (adaption)

Pencils:

Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]

Inks:

Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

Art credited to D. Duran.

The Nightmare World Of James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things (Table of Contents)

[Nightmare World] / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

James Edgar; Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Pablo Marcos

Inks:

Pablo Marcos

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer 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.

The Guillotine (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Felipe Dela Rosa

Inks:

Felipe Dela Rosa

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Zoo For The Beasts Of The Universe (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Maelo Cintron

Inks:

Maelo Cintron

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

Cintron’s professional debut

Lunatic Letters’ Page [+ Editorial] (Table of Contents)

letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Letters:

Typeset

The Skull Forest Of Old Earth (Table of Contents)

The Shoggoths / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Zesar Lopez

Inks:

Zesar Lopez

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer 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.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Table of Contents)

text article / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

? (photo)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

Text article with photos.

The 300th Birth Day Party (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Ramon Torrents

Inks:

Ramon Torrents

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #23 (January 1975)

The Gargoyle Trilogy (Table of Contents)

comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Felipe Dela Rosa

Inks:

Felipe Dela Rosa

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

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?

The Night In The Wax Museum (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Villanova

Inks:

Villanova

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

The artist’s name is variously spelled with one or two L’s. Since his work for Seaboard/Atlas is spelled with 2 L’s, I’ve followed that custom.

Dracula (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Pablo Marcos

Inks:

Pablo Marcos

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

The Beast Within (Table of Contents)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Amador Garcia

Inks:

Amador Garcia

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

[Ad for Nightmare #10] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Pablo Marcos

Inks:

Pablo Marcos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Indexer Notes

Next issue ad

The Thing In The Alley (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Hewetson

Pencils:

Berni Wrightson

Inks:

Berni Wrightson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Reprints:

• from Eerie (Warren, 1966 series) #42 (October 1972)

Indexer Notes

Back cover. This story also appears, due to a printers' error, in Warren's Eerie #42 the same month! Art originally intended for Science Fiction Odyssey #1.