Psycho
#2
(March 1971)
Skywald,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Skywald Publishing Corporation
- Editing
- Sol Brodsky (credited) (editor); Herschel Waldman (credited) (associate editor)
Issue Notes
Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Hector Varela (signed as H. Varela) (painting)
- Inks
- Hector Varela (signed as H. Varela) (painting)
- Colors
- Hector Varela (signed as H. Varela) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Heap
- Reprints
The Heap
The Heap / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Chuck McNaughton (credited)
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (credited)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito (credited)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Characters
- The Heap (first appearance; second incarnation)
- Synopsis
- A crop duster pilot crashes his plane into a silo containing experimental military nerve gas and emerges from the wreckage as a monstrous heap. He then goes after the people who sabotaged his plane for revenge.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover story.
To Laugh...Perchance To Live!
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Chuck McNaughton (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Katz (credited)
- Inks
- Rich Buckler (credited)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man disgusted by the state of humanity while visiting Greenwich Village, enters another dimension and encounters grotesque beings who want him to rule over them.
- Reprints
-
in Dossier Negro (Ibero Mundial de ediciones, 1968 series) #64 (setiembre 1974) -
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2371 - Skywald's Psycho Volume 1 ([July] 2019)
-
Death’s Stranger
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman (credited)
- Pencils
- Tom Palmer (credited) (signed as
PALMER) - Inks
- Tom Palmer (credited) (signed as PALMER)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A scientist invents an immortality serum. When his fellow scientists try to stop him from taking it, he kills them. He is then haunted by their spirits for millenia.
- Reprints
Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery #2: The Vampire
Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Stephen Hickman (signed as Steve Hickman)
- Inks
- Stephen Hickman (signed as Steve Hickman)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire preys on an elderly bedridden man.
- Reprints
Revolution!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Rich Margopoulos (credited as Rick Poulos)
- Pencils
- Tom Sutton (credited as Sean Todd)
- Inks
- Dan Adkins (credited)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A cruel despot on a faraway planet enjoys watching people die at the hands of giant monsters in arena gladiator fights. Having had enough, the population rebels against his regime. He and his men flee the planet and land on another world where they are devoured by giant plants.
- Reprints
- in Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #[22] ([November 1974])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2371 - Skywald's Psycho Volume 1 ([July] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story credited to Rick Poulos and penciling credited to Sean Todd.
The Quest!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Rich Margopoulos (credited as Rick Poulos)
- Pencils
- Chic Stone (credited)
- Inks
- Chic Stone (credited)
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A wizard from another dimension poses as an elderly painter in our world to find a young man to help save his daughter from an evil lord and his dragon.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story credited to Rick Poulos.
Dream Planet
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Phil Seuling (credited)
- Pencils
- Serg Moren (credited) (signed as Serg Moren)
- Inks
- Serg Moren (credited) (signed as Serg Moren)
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- As a spaceship nears an unknown planet, all crew members onboard have dreams of being killed by various gigantic organisms not realizing it's telepathy being sent to them by the planets inhabitants.
- Reprints
Valley of Blood
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Chuck McNaughton (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Katz (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (credited)
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man and his wife are visiting a remote town near the Himalayas. After a near fatal accident that nearly kills the wife, a mysterious man offers his blood to save her life. It turns out that he's a vampire and has now made her his vampiric bride.
- Reprints
- in Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #21 (October 1974) which is reprinted
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2407 - Skywald's Nightmare: Volume 6 ([July] 2019)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2371 - Skywald's Psycho Volume 1 ([July] 2019)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
The Heap
The Heap -
3.
To Laugh...Perchance To Live!
-
4.
Death’s Stranger
-
5.
Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery #2: The Vampire
Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery -
6.
Revolution!
-
7.
The Quest!
-
8.
Dream Planet
-
9.
Valley of Blood
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