Gwandanaland Comics #2370 - Skywald's Scream Volume 1
([May] 2019)

Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 Series
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Price
14.99 USD
Pages
272
On-sale Date
2019-05-27
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gwandanaland Comics
ISBN
978-1-0705-2105-3 Search at WorldCat
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Editing
Lance Jones

Issue Notes

Reprints Scream (Skywald, 1973 series) #1-4.

Skywald's Scream: Volume 1 (Table of Contents)

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Pencils
Josep Maria Miralles (painting)
Inks
Josep Maria Miralles (painting)
Colors
Josep Maria Miralles (painting)
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Lady Satan
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Credits (Table of Contents: 1)

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?
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typeset

Indexer Notes

Credits page.
Information is taken from 'The Complete Skywald Bibliograpy' by Richard J. Arndt (2010).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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Pencils
Vicente Segrelles (painting)
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Vicente Segrelles (painting)

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horror-suspense
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Prologue to a Scream... (Table of Contents: 3)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
Inks
Zesar
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horror-suspense
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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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

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List of story titles in this issue.

Welcome To Scream #1 (Table of Contents: 5)

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Script
Al Hewetson
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photo
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typeset

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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Text article with photos.

I, Slime (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
José Gual
Inks
José Gual
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horror-suspense
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...Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors... (Table of Contents: 7)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
José Rubio
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José Rubio
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horror-suspense
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This Archaic Breeding Ground... (Table of Contents: 8)

The Shoggoths / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
José Gual
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José Gual
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horror-suspense
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...Hickory Dickory Dock... (Table of Contents: 9)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ferran Sostres
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Ferran Sostres
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horror-suspense
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Where Lunatics Live (Table of Contents: 10)

Nosferatu / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
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Zesar
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Genre
horror-suspense
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The Skeleton In the Desert (Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Maelo Cintron
Inks
Maelo Cintron
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
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The Tale Of The Perfect Crime (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Felipe de la Rosa
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Felipe de la Rosa
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

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Indexer Notes

House ad for back issues of The Crime Machine, Hell-Rider, Psycho and Nightmare.

The Comics Macabre (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Maelo Cintron
Inks
Maelo Cintron
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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.
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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... (Table of Contents: 15)

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Al Hewetson
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Felipe de la Rosa
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Felipe de la Rosa
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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Spoof/takeoff on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

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Scream (Table of Contents: 17)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
Inks
Zesar
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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Lady Satan Evil Origin Issue (Table of Contents: 18)

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Pencils
Josep Maria Miralles (painting)
Inks
Josep Maria Miralles (painting)
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horror-suspense
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Lady Satan
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[Editorial] (Table of Contents: 19)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
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Ricardo Villamonte
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Letters
?

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Indexer Notes

Contents and credits page.

The Macabre Beginning (Table of Contents: 21)

Lady Satan / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
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horror-suspense
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I Was A Vampire For Hire (Table of Contents: 22)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Felipe de la Rosa
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Felipe de la Rosa
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horror-suspense
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The Thing In The Black Dress (Table of Contents: 23)

Gothic Fairy Tales / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Suso
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Suso
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Genre
horror-suspense
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Edgar A. Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum (Table of Contents: 24)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Allan Poe (short story); Al Hewetson (adaptation)
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Adaptation of the short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Phantom of the Opera (Table of Contents: 25)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
Maro Nava
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Maro Nava
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horror-suspense
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The Vampire Hunters (Table of Contents: 26)

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Al Hewetson
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Domingo Álvarez
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Domingo Álvarez
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horror-suspense
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The Vampire Letters (Table of Contents: 27)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
Emilio Bernadó
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Emilio Bernadó
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horror-suspense
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The Thing That Left No Fingerprints (Table of Contents: 28)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ferran Sostres
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Ferran Sostres
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horror-suspense
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The Fetid Belle Of The Mississippi (Table of Contents: 29)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Suso
Inks
Suso
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 30)

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This is Suso (Table of Contents: 31)

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Al Hewetson
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Suso
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Suso
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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Profile of artist Jesús Manuel Peña Rego, aka Suso.

...The Name Is Sinner Cane... And The Name Means Evil! (Table of Contents: 32)

Nosferatu / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
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Zesar
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 33)

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Indexer Notes

House ad for Skywald's horror magazines.

A Gothic Fairy Tale: A Tale Of 2 Macabre Snakes (Table of Contents: 34)

Gothic Fairy Tales / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Felipe de la Rosa
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Felipe de la Rosa
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 35)

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Pencils
Vilanova (painting) (signed)
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Vilanova (painting) (signed)
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 36)

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

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Jesús Durán
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Jesús Durán
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
The weirdest classic tale of horror ever written
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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Frontispiece. This page functions as a title page or introduction for The Phantom of the Opera.

Scream (Table of Contents: 37)

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Jesús Durán
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Jesús Durán
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typeset

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Indexer Notes

This contents page has an extract of two panels from part 2 of The Phantom of the Opera.

The Phantom of the Opera Chapter One …The Good… The Bad… And the Weird... (Table of Contents: 38)

The Phantom of the Opera / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson (adaptation); Gaston Leroux (novel)
Pencils
Jesús Durán
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Jesús Durán
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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Adaptation of the novel "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux.

The Phantom of the Opera and So Starts Chapter Two: The Torture Chamber… (Table of Contents: 39)

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Al Hewetson (adaptation); Gaston Leroux (novel)
Pencils
Jesús Durán
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Jesús Durán
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horror-suspense
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[Domingo profile + editorial] (Table of Contents: 40)

Lunatic Letters From The Macabre Scream Mailbag / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
photo
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typeset

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horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Dave Sim sends in a letter. The letters’ page also features a biography and photo of Domingo Álvarez Gómez.

What Is Evil and What Is Not? (Table of Contents: 41)

Lady Satan / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Lady Satan
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Indexer Notes

"Chapter Two" -- continued from previous issue (Scream #2).

The Fall of the House of Usher (Table of Contents: 42)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Allan Poe (short-story); Al Hewetson (adaptation)
Pencils
Maro Nava
Inks
Maro Nava
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Adaptation of the short-story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Messrs. Crypts and Graves: Undertakers (Table of Contents: 43)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Rubén Sosa (signed)
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Rubén Sosa (signed)
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horror-suspense
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Horror Preview Contest (Table of Contents: 44)

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Indexer Notes

This page features a sequence of five images with blank speech and captions to fill in. "The best 5 entries we receive will win an advance copy of the next issue..."

Nosferatu (Table of Contents: 45)

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Indexer Notes

This page is a photo article explaining the origin of Nosferatu in F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film, also promoting a review of the film by Ed Fedory in Psycho #16.

The Tale of Another Nosferatu... Chapter 3 (Table of Contents: 46)

Nosferatu / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
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Zesar
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horror-suspense
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 47)

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? (ad copy)
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Ricardo Villamonte
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Ricardo Villamonte
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In Nightmare there are so many monsters you can't count 'em all
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 48)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
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Zesar
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? (solid red)
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?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
These men are Nosferatu's monsters
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Indexer Notes

This promotion is composed two-thirds of the first page of "The Tale of Another Nosferatu..." with a new heading and the addition of "in Scream" at the end.

Blood-Hunt for the Cannibal Werewolf! (Table of Contents: 49)

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Vilanova (painting) (signed)
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Vilanova (painting) (signed)
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horror-suspense
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Nightmare (Table of Contents: 50)

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Promo ad for companion magazine Nightmare.

Scream (Table of Contents: 51)

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Contents and credits page.

Lady Satan, Chapter 3: Satan Wants A Child (Table of Contents: 52)

Lady Satan / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson (credited as Howie Anderson)
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Letters
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Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Continued in Psycho #19.

Edgar Allan Poe In The Movies (Table of Contents: 53)

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Al Hewetson
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photographs
Letters
typeset

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horror-suspense
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The Oblong Box (Table of Contents: 54)

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Edgar Allan Poe (original short-story); Al Hewetson (adaptation)
Pencils
Maro Nava
Inks
Maro Nava
Letters
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Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Adaptation of the short-story "The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Archaic Scream Announcements (Table of Contents: 55)

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Al Hewetson
Pencils
José Gual; Jack Davis; photograph
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José Gual; Jack Davis
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?

Genre
non-fiction
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Indexer Notes

Photo of Ed Fedory and spot illustrations. Dave Sim wrote a ‘Comics Opinion’ column. Advert for Russ Cochran’s EC reprints.

The Skull Of The Ghoul (Table of Contents: 56)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Ferran Sostres
Inks
Ferran Sostres
Letters
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Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

While The Skull Of The Ghoul is presented as a single story it does have distinct sub-titles and states "...Now begins part two of our tale"... and is broken up in some reprints.

3 pages Part One: ...She Came Upon A Midnight Clear...
7 pages Part Two: ...She Died Upon a Decrepit Dawn...

The Legend Of The Cannibal Were-Wolf (Table of Contents: 57)

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Script
Ed Fedory
Pencils
Ricardo Villamonte
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
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horror-suspense
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The Lunatic Mummy (Table of Contents: 58)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
César López
Inks
César López
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Genre
horror-suspense
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The Vampire Kingdom (Table of Contents: 59)

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Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Domingo Álvarez
Inks
Domingo Álvarez
Letters
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horror-suspense
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...When The Dusk Falls -- So Does Death... (Table of Contents: 60)

Nosferatu / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Al Hewetson
Pencils
Zesar
Inks
Zesar
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

The Tales Of Nosferatu Chapter 4

The Tell-Tale Heart (Table of Contents: 61)

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Promo ad for Psycho magazine.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Skywald's Scream: Volume 1
  2. 1. Credits
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. Prologue to a Scream...
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. Welcome To Scream #1
  7. 6. I, Slime
  8. 7. ...Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors...
  9. 8. This Archaic Breeding Ground...
    The Shoggoths
  10. 9. ...Hickory Dickory Dock...
  11. 10. Where Lunatics Live
    Nosferatu
  12. 11. The Skeleton In the Desert
  13. 12. The Tale Of The Perfect Crime
  14. 13. [no title indexed]
  15. 14. The Comics Macabre
  16. 15. ...The Strange Paintings of Jay Crumb...
  17. 16. [no title indexed]
  18. 17. Scream
  19. 18. Lady Satan Evil Origin Issue
  20. 19. [Editorial]
  21. 20. [no title indexed]
  22. 21. The Macabre Beginning
    Lady Satan
  23. 22. I Was A Vampire For Hire
  24. 23. The Thing In The Black Dress
    Gothic Fairy Tales
  25. 24. Edgar A. Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum
  26. 25. The Phantom of the Opera
  27. 26. The Vampire Hunters
  28. 27. The Vampire Letters
  29. 28. The Thing That Left No Fingerprints
  30. 29. The Fetid Belle Of The Mississippi
  31. 30. [no title indexed]
  32. 31. This is Suso
  33. 32. ...The Name Is Sinner Cane... And The Name Means Evil!
    Nosferatu
  34. 33. [no title indexed]
  35. 34. A Gothic Fairy Tale: A Tale Of 2 Macabre Snakes
    Gothic Fairy Tales
  36. 35. [no title indexed]
  37. 36. ["The weirdest classic tale of horror ever written"]
  38. 37. Scream
  39. 38. The Phantom of the Opera Chapter One …The Good… The Bad… And the Weird...
    The Phantom of the Opera
  40. 39. The Phantom of the Opera and So Starts Chapter Two: The Torture Chamber…
  41. 40. [Domingo profile + editorial]
    Lunatic Letters From The Macabre Scream Mailbag
  42. 41. What Is Evil and What Is Not?
    Lady Satan
  43. 42. The Fall of the House of Usher
  44. 43. Messrs. Crypts and Graves: Undertakers
  45. 44. Horror Preview Contest
  46. 45. Nosferatu
  47. 46. The Tale of Another Nosferatu... Chapter 3
    Nosferatu
  48. 47. ["In Nightmare there are so many monsters you can't count 'em all"]
  49. 48. ["These men are Nosferatu's monsters"]
  50. 49. Blood-Hunt for the Cannibal Werewolf!
  51. 50. Nightmare
  52. 51. Scream
  53. 52. Lady Satan, Chapter 3: Satan Wants A Child
    Lady Satan
  54. 53. Edgar Allan Poe In The Movies
  55. 54. The Oblong Box
  56. 55. Archaic Scream Announcements
  57. 56. The Skull Of The Ghoul
  58. 57. The Legend Of The Cannibal Were-Wolf
  59. 58. The Lunatic Mummy
  60. 59. The Vampire Kingdom
  61. 60. ...When The Dusk Falls -- So Does Death...
    Nosferatu
  62. 61. The Tell-Tale Heart
This issue was modified by
  • Dwayne Best
  • Gary Henderson
  • Eduardo Urrutia