(November 1968)
Western,
1965 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-08-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Dell/Western Eight-Digit Code
- 10208-811
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Crystal Skull of Doom
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Wilson (painting)
- Inks
- George Wilson (painting)
- Colors
- George Wilson (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #10 (March 1973) - in Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Western, 1965 series) #81 (September 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
credit from Alberto Becattini
Death Comes Riding
comic story / 9 pages
- Reprints
-
in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #81 which is reprinted - in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #7 (September 1972)
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories (Western, 1977 series) #11186 [1] (1977)
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Western, 1965 series) #81 (September 1978)
-
The Ballerina's Last Dance
text story / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #13 (September 1973), #19 (September 1974)
- in Dr. Spektor Presents Spine-Tingling Tales (Western, 1975 series) #2 (August 1975)
-
Phantom Hands of Vengeance
comic story / 4 pages
- Reprints
- in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #81
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #4 (June 1972) [revised layout=11 pages; original layout=4 pages]
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories (Western, 1977 series) #11186 [1] (1977)
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Western, 1965 series) #81 (September 1978)
-
Animals
Reader's Page / activity / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Reader art from: Tenna Lohr, Ray Walton, Roy Newsome, Robbie Christensen, Everett Toppins.
Airplanes
Reader's Page / activity / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Reader art from: Hans Kuenzi, Glendon Gray, R. E. McLaughlin, Neill Jeffrey, Chris Leighton.
Jokes On You
Gold Key Kid / text story / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Riddles and jokes from readers: Steve Jones, Jean Dennison, Susan Burrows, Danny Green, Eloise Sebby, Scott Laudeman, Linda Serocki, Mike Anderson, Charyce Adams, Michael Le Fauci, Ruth Mengwasser, Md. Nooruddoja, Nancy Schaeffer, Charolette Elder, Janice Krueger, Hunter Holt, Michele Horton, Warwick Chang, Bradley Doley, Carol Wilson.
The Ghost Warriors
comic story / 6 pages
- Reprints
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #7 (September 1972)
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories (Western, 1977 series) #11186 [1] (1977)
- in Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Western, 1965 series) #81 (September 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit per Newman's records published in Robin Snyder's History of the Comics, Vol 2, # 8, August 1991. Unknown pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sal Trapani.
[Cement Feed]
Mini-Comics / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A rooster mistakes a bag of dry cement for feed.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Crystal Skull of Doom
-
1.
Death Comes Riding
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2.
The Ballerina's Last Dance
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3.
Phantom Hands of Vengeance
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4.
Animals
Reader's Page -
5.
Airplanes
Reader's Page -
6.
Jokes On You
Gold Key Kid -
7.
The Ghost Warriors
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8.
The Crystal Skull of Doom
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9.
[Cement Feed]
Mini-Comics -
10.
Plesiosaur
Dinosauria
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Darrel McCann
- Jim Van Dore
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