Scream
#1
(August 1973)
Skywald,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Skywald Publishing Corporation
- ISBN
- ?
- Editing
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson) (editor)
Issue Notes
Publisher: Israel Waldman; Herschel Waldman. Most stories from #1-4 do not list a writer but Hewetson wrote all of them. Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2370 - Skywald's Scream Volume 1 ([May] 2019), #2370 - Skywald's Scream Volume 1 ([May] 2019)
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[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Vicente Segrelles (credited as Segrelles) (painting)
- Inks
- Vicente Segrelles (credited as Segrelles) (painting)
- Colors
- Vicente Segrelles (credited as Segrelles) (painting)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Prologue To A Scream
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Al Hewetson
- Pencils
- Zesar (signed as Zesar) (illustration)
- Inks
- Zesar (signed as Zesar) (illustration)
- Colors
- ? (solid purple)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Frontispiece. According to Hewetson’s introduction, Scream #1 was put together in response to readers’ opinions as expressed in the Bunch Of Questions survey and was Phase 3 of the Horror-Mood.
Welcome To Scream #1
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Archaic Al)
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text article with one photo.
I, Slime
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- José Gual (credited as Jose Gual) (signed as Josep Gual)
- Inks
- José Gual (credited as Jose Gual) (signed as Josep Gual)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- José Rubio (credited as Rubio)
- Inks
- José Rubio (credited as Rubio)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
in This Archaic Breeding Ground...
The Shoggoths / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- José Gual (credited as Jose Gual) (signed as Josep Gual)
- Inks
- José Gual (credited as Jose Gual) (signed as Josep Gual)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
...Hickory Dickory Dock...
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Ferran Sostres (credited) (signed as Ferrán Sostres)
- Inks
- Ferran Sostres (credited) (signed as Ferrán Sostres)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Where Lunatics Live
Nosferatu / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Zesar (credited)
- Inks
- Zesar (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Skeleton In the Desert
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Maelo Cintron (credited) (illustrations)
- Inks
- Maelo Cintron (credited) (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Tale Of The Perfect Crime
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Felipe de la Rosa (credited as Dela Rosa)
- Inks
- Felipe de la Rosa (credited as Dela Rosa)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Comics Macabre
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited)
- Pencils
- Maelo Cintron (credited)
- Inks
- Maelo Cintron (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fredric Wertham; Len Darvin; Al Hewetson; Herschel Waldman; Skywald staffers; Heap; Frankenstein's Monster
- Synopsis
- Featured lead characters based on ‘Seduction Of The Innocent’ author Fredric Wertham and Comics Code Authority president Len Darvin as well as Al Hewetson, Herschel Waldman & other Skywald staffers. In the story Darvin and Wertham visit the Skywald offices to complain about the horror comics being published, get into an argument and kill Hewetson whereupon tiny versions of Skywald’s Heap, Frankenstein’s Monster and others come off comic pages in the Skywald offices and kill Wertham and Darvin.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Hewetson sent a copy of the story to Wertham, with whom he corresponded for a number of years but, according to Hewetson, Wertham didn’t get the point.
The Strange Paintings Of Jay Crumb
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Felipe de la Rosa (credited as Dela Rosa) (signed as
DE LA ROSA) - Inks
- Felipe de la Rosa (credited as Dela Rosa) (signed as DE LA ROSA)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Spoof/takeoff on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb.
Scream
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Hewetson (credited as Alan Hewetson)
- Pencils
- Zesar (credited)
- Inks
- Zesar (credited)
- Colors
- ? (solid blue)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Prologue To A Scream
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2.
Welcome To Scream #1
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3.
I, Slime
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4.
Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors
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5.
This Archaic Breeding Ground...
The Shoggoths -
6.
...Hickory Dickory Dock...
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7.
Where Lunatics Live
Nosferatu -
8.
The Skeleton In the Desert
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9.
The Tale Of The Perfect Crime
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10.
The Comics Macabre
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11.
The Strange Paintings Of Jay Crumb
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12.
Scream
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- lionel grime
- Per Sandell
- Eduardo Urrutia
- Jim Van Dore
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