The Heap
#1
(September 1971)
Skywald,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Skywald Publishing Corporation
- Brand
- Skywald Comics
- Editing
- Sol Brodsky
Shadows of Satan
The Heap / comic story / 17 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stirred from sleep by the whispering wind...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Heap [Jim Roberts]; Sybl; Doctor Frankenstein; Vince; Larry; Master Scythe
Indexer Notes
Includes recap of the Heap's origin from Psycho #2. This Heap is not the same as the Hillman character, although he derives a good deal from that strip.
When The Sea Goes Dry
A Heap Tale of the Unusual / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Spanish gold lay on the bottom of the sea and legend had it that it was...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Strange Journey (Farrell, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957) which is reprinted - from Strange Fantasy (Farrell, 1952 series) #2 (October 1952) [retitled and modified for Code-approval]
-
Indexer Notes
"I" is the writer of many Iger shop stories.
The Curse of the Broken Balcony!
A Heap Tale of the Unusual / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But I don't see anything here!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 series) #8 (August 1952) [Retitled: "The Curse of the Broken Balcony!"]
-
Death on the Earth-Mars Run!
A Heap Tale of the Unusual / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What weird, unknown power dominated the richest banker of the solar system?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 series) #8 (August 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Hand lettering has replaced some of the original Leroy lettering, most likely edits to receive Comics Code approval.
Ballast of Gold
A Heap Tale of the Unusual / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the true story of a ship that carried hundreds of...
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- A ship coming from the California gold fields with 578 passengers and crew, along with 15 tons of gold, sinks in a hurricane during September of 1857.
- Reprints
- from Strange Journey (Farrell, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Indexer Notes
"I" is the writer of many Iger shop stories. The wreck of the S.S. Central America was discovered in 1988 and an estimated $100-150 million dollars of gold has been recovered so far.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The Beasts of Bedlam battle for a sleeping beauty!"]
Heap -
1.
Shadows of Satan
The Heap -
2.
When The Sea Goes Dry
A Heap Tale of the Unusual -
3.
The Curse of the Broken Balcony!
A Heap Tale of the Unusual -
4.
Death on the Earth-Mars Run!
A Heap Tale of the Unusual -
5.
Ballast of Gold
A Heap Tale of the Unusual
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Richard Arndt
- Nick Caputo
- Bill Devine
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Per Sandell
- Peter Croome
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