(December 1969-January 1970)
DC,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-10-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (editor); Carmine Infantino (editorial director)
Issue Notes
Indicia date: December 1969-January 1970. Cover date: January.
On-sale date from Comic Reader #75 and from copyright registration.
On-sale date from Comic Reader #75 and from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
The Three Witches / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- G-467
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4 (3ème trimestre 1975) -
in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits from The Art of Nick Cardy.
[no title indexed]
The Three Witches / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2.67 pages
- Job Number
- G-290
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As the full moon approaches its zenith...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cynthia; Mildred; Mordred
- Synopsis
- Mildred and Mordred visit Cynthia at her "mod" apartment, and they are none to happy about it.
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
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Indexer Notes
Framing sequence. No credits. Sekowsky pencils per Jim Bain via the GCD Errors list. Previous indexer credited Alex Toth. Script and art credits confirmed from The Comic Reader #75 (1969).
A Face in the Crowd!
The Three Witches / comic story / 5.5 pages
- Job Number
- G-254
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Arnie (holocaust survivor); Bulgart (as a Nazi general and as a civilian); Cynthia (story host); a Rabbi
- Synopsis
- After WWII, Arnie searches for Bulgart, the Nazi in charge of the concentration camp where Arnie was held, to exact his revenge.
- Reprints
- in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
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- Keywords
- holocaust
Indexer Notes
Page 6 is 1/2 a page. Script and art credits from Mark Hanerfeld in The Comic Reader #75 (1969).
Artwork previously attributed to Don Heck by Steven Grant (via email June 2008). Mike Tiefenbacher corroborated Hanerfeld’s credits, noting Mike Roy’s stylistic similarity to Heck (via email November 2010).
The Doll Man!
The Three Witches / comic story / 6.67 pages
- Job Number
- G-294
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cyrus Caulfield; Edna Bilch (landlord); Irving Bilch (landlord); Mordred (story host)
- Synopsis
- The tenants of the apartment building where Cyrus lives want him gone, and mob mentality takes over when they burst into his apartment.
- Reprints
- in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #16 ([August 1975]) - in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
No credits. Script and art credits from The Comic Reader #75 (1969).
Treasure Hunt
The Three Witches / comic story / 6.5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Max (jungle guide); Mildred (story host); old man (treasure hunter)
- Synopsis
- Max takes an archaeologist into the jungle. When he discovers the treasure that the archaeologist is seeking is real, Max decides it will be his alone.
- Reprints
- in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #2 ([January 1977])
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Page 7 is 1/2 a page. No credits. Script and art credits from The Comic Reader #75 (1969).
Mad Menace
cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- John Costanza (signed)
- Pencils
- John Costanza (signed)
- Inks
- John Costanza (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza (signed)
- Job Number
- G-300-A
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- witch
- Synopsis
- A witch finds a magic formula for making winning golf balls, but finds out it's too similar to that of nitroglycerine.
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #2 ([January 1977])
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- golf
[Epilogue]
The Three Witches / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mildred; Mordred; Cynthia; Egor
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
-
Distortion!
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sid Greene (signed)
- Inks
- Sid Greene (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Job Number
- G-103
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John; Kathy
- Synopsis
- Kathy refuses to enter the fun house.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #20 ([April 1976])
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
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Train to Doom
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Gerry Conway
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- G-461
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Chuck; Fred
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Three Witches -
1.
["As the full moon approaches its zenith..."]
The Three Witches -
2.
A Face in the Crowd!
The Three Witches -
3.
Calling Members Of The Mighty I Patrol
The I Patrol -
4.
The Doll Man!
The Three Witches -
5.
Treasure Hunt
The Three Witches -
6.
Mad Menace
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7.
[Epilogue]
The Three Witches -
8.
Distortion!
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9.
Train to Doom
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- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Rowe
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike Verhart
- John Wells
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