The Complete Skywald Checklist

Nightmare 1972 Special

1. cover: Fernando Fernandez (Nov. 1972) [edited: Al Hewetson]

1) The Truth Behind The Myth Of The Bride Of Dracula [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 1p [frontis]

2) The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde [Al Hewetson/Juez Xirinius] 10p from the novel by

Robert Louis Stevenson

3) A Macabre Fact Of Life: The Indian Rope Trick [Al Hewetson/Ricardo Villamonte] 2p

4) Beauty Is Only Skin Deep [Doug Moench/Fred Carrillo] 9p

5) Limb From Limb From Death [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 7p

6) The Nightmare World: A Grave Beneath The Sea! [Al Hewetson/Bill Payne] 4p from a dream by

Joseph Elliott

7) Alone [Bruce Jones] 12p

8) And If A Fiend Should Come A-Callin’ [Al Hewetson/Luis M. Roca] 6p

9) The Day The Earth Will Die! [Al Hewetson/Ferran Sostres] 10p
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. This was the last squarebound issue of the Skywald line. This is a very good issue with strong stories throughout. Best story was Hewetson’s ‘Limb From Limb From Death’, which was possibly the goriest story that Skywald ever published. Best art is Bruce Jones’ story ‘Alone’ which also had a very good story. Other fine work appeared from Juez Xirinius, Ricardo Villamonte, Doug Moench, Luis Roca & Ferran Sostres.

Nightmare 1973 Winter-Special
1. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1973) [edited: Al Hewetson]

1) Die Mummy! [Al Hewetson/Jesus Duran] 8p

2) Nightmare Movie Review: Dr. Phibes Rises Again [Al Hewetson] 3p [text article w/photos]

3) I Left My Heart In The Burial Pit, I Had No Choice [Al Hewetson/Jose Gual] 7p

4) Beyond The Walls!!! [Ed Fedory/Villanova] 1p

5) Mephisto’s Brand [Ed Fedory/Jesus Suso Rego] 1p

6) The Horror Tub [Al Hewetson/Fernando Rubio] 8p

7) The Event In The Night? [Al Hewetson/Pablo Marcos] 7p

8) Beware It…Fear It…It Screams! [Al Hewetson/Antonio Borrell] 9p

9) The Night Of The Mutant-Eaters [Al Hewetson/Dennis Fujitake] 8p

10) The Last Witch! [Ed Fedory/Antonio Borrell] 1p

11) Special Awards Page [Al Hewetson/Gahan Wilson] 2p [text article w/spot illos]

12) Whether Man Or Scarecrow [Al Hewetson/Felipe Dela Rosa] 7p
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. The letters’ page featured a previously unpublished Gahan Wilson cartoon. Kelly’s cover is quite good. Fine work appears here from Suso, Ed Fedory, Rubio and Pablo Marcos but the best story & art go the Hewetson/Borrell psycho-sexual drama ‘Beware It…Fear It…It Screams!’

The 1974 Psycho Yearbook
1. cover: montage of Psycho covers #1, 3, 7, 8, 9 & 13/frontis: Paul Pueyo (Apr. 1974)

1) The Saga Of The Frankenstein’s Monster: The Brides Of Frankenstein [Al Hewetson/Cesar Lopez] 9p

2) Horror-Mood Ad [Bill Everett] 1p [art reprinted from the prose story in Nightmare #1 (Dec. 1970)]

3) Psychotic Psycho Mailbag [letters’ page, tributes to Syd Shores & Bill Everett] 1p [text article]

4) Slime World [Chuck McNaughton/Ralph Reese] 10p reprinted from Nightmare #5 (Aug. 1971)

5) The Man Who Stole Eternity [Gardner Fox/Bill Everett] 10p reprinted from Psycho #3 (May 1971)

6) Beware Small Evils! [Jack Katz & Frank Giacoia] 10p reprinted from Nightmare #3 (Apr. 1971)

7) The Inner Man [Tom Sutton/Tom Sutton & Dan Adkins] 10p reprinted from Nightmare #3 (Apr. 1971)

8) The Deadly Mark Of The Beast! [Len Wein/Syd Shores & Tom Palmer] 8p reprinted from Nightmare

#1 (Dec. 1970)

1. cover: Vicente Segrelles plus previous covers including #3, 7, 11 & 13 (Oct. 1974)

1) Dracula: The God Of The Dead [Al Hewetson/Jose Martin Sauri] 9p

2) Dracula Is Alive (?) And Evil In This 1974 Nightmare Yearbook [Al Hewetson] 2p [text article]

3) A Rottin’ Deal [Bruce Jones] 11p reprinted from Nightmare #3 (Apr. 1971)

4) Let The Dreamer Beware [Jerry Siegal/Ralph Reese] 7p reprinted from Psycho #5 (Nov. 1971)

5) Escape [Dennis Fujitake] 2p reprinted from Psycho #4 (Sept. 1971)

6) Whence Stalked The Werewolf [Len Brown/Carlos Garzon] 6p reprinted from Nightmare #5 (Aug.

1971)

7) Power Of The Pen! [Doug Moench/Doug Wildey] 11p reprinted from Psycho #5 (Nov. 1971)

9) Psycho #20 Ad [B&W repo of cover] 1p [on inside back cover]

10) Scream Ad [Jesus Suso Rego] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: $.75 for 64 pages. Another good collection, with the sole new story being quite good as well.

Hell-Rider

1. cover: Harry Rosenbaum (Aug. 1971)

1) How…Why…Hell Rider?/About Andru And Esposito [Gary Friedrich] 2p [text article, includes bios of

Ross Andru & Mike Esposito]

2) Introducing…The Hell-Rider [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Eposito] 20p

3) The Butterfly [Gary Friedrich/John Celardo & Mike Esposito] 14p

4) The Wild Bunch [Gary Friedrich/Syd Shores & Mike Esposto] 14p

5) The Hell-Rider: The Final Chapter [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 10p

6) Curly’s Cycle Corner [Gary Friedrich] 2p [text article]
Notes: Publisher: Israel Waldman & Sol Brodsky. Editor: Sol Brodsky with Gary Friedrich listed as Script Editor & Bill Everett credited for ‘Special Effects’. $.60 for 64 pages. The Hell-Rider appears to be a non-supernatural forerunner of Marvel’s Ghost Rider, which was also created or co-created by Gary Friedrich. Lots of nudity in the Hell-Rider stories. ‘Curly’s Cycle Corner’ was a Q & A and motorcycle advice column. Contributors were listed on the masthead. The individual stories themselves are uncredited. All of the stories are also linked by a common villain, the Claw.
2. cover: Harry Rosenbaum (Oct. 1971)

1) Write On!/Gary Friedrich Admits To A Few Things! [Gary Friedich] 2p [text article/letters’ page

w/photo.]

2) The Hell-Rider: Night Of The Ripper [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 24p

3) The Wild Bunch: Blood On Their Spokes [Mike Friedrich/Syd Shores & Mike Esposito] 13p

4) Curly’s Cycle Corner [Gary Friedrich] 1p [text article]

5) The Butterfly: Against The Brothers Of The Crimson Cross! [Rich Bucker & Gary Friedrich/Rich

Buckler] 11p

6) The Hell-Rider: Shanghai…70’s Style! [Gary Friedrich/Ross Andru & Mike Esposito] 10p
Notes: Final issue. The letters’ page included a bio & photo of Gary Friedrich. ‘Special Effects’ are credited to Bill Everett & Carlos Garzon. The never published (although advertised) third issue would have featured a cover by Gray Morrow and a Hell-Rider story entitled ‘The Zodiac Killers’.

The Crime Machine
1. cover: Tom Palmer/titlepage: Jack Abel (Feb. 1971)

1) Vinne Sherwood, Racket King! [?/Mike Becker &Vince Alacia] 6p reprinted from All True Detective

Cases, 1952, 100p Special [Which was likely a reprint or rebinding itself.]

2) Marion Gilmore, Queen Of The Waterfront Gangs [?/Joe Kubert] 7p reprinted from All True Detective

Cases, 1952

3) Brothers In Crime [?/?] 7p

4) Baby Face Nelson [?/?]

5) The Mole [?] 2p [text story]

6) Walter Legenza And The Tri-State Gang [?/Joe Kubert] 8p

7) George Krowl And The Big City Murder Mob [?/?] 7p

8) Boss Of The Death Gang [?/?] 7p

9) Greek-Fire To Flame-Thrower [?/?] 1p

10) Toots Garboli And His Fight Racketeers [?/?]
Notes: Publisher: Israel Waldman & Sol Brodsky. Edited: Sol Brodsky. $.50 for 64 pages. Unlike the horror titles from Skywald, this crime magazine’s B&W contents were all reprinted from Waldman’s stock of reprints from the 1950s. The stories were uncredited but credits have been established for some of them. A generic G-Man, named Matt Grover in this issue, was the host, appearing on the titlepage and splash page of each story. The stories themselves aren’t too bad, particularly for the Kubert selections.
2. cover: Tom Palmer (May 1971)

1) No Jail Could Hold Him! [?/Carmine Infantino & Vince Alascia] 6p reprinted from Prison Break #5,

Avon, 1952

2) Francine O’Connor…The Empress Of Crime [?/Tex Blaisdell?] 7p

3) Charlie Lupetti And His Bullet-Proof Gang [?/?] 7p

4) The Corpse In The Lake [?] 1p [text story]

5) Lou ‘Limpy’ Savatto, Hired Gunman [?/?] 5p

6) Leech McCoy…Incendiary Killer! [?/?] 6p

7) Juanita Perez, The Gypsy Killer [?/Tex Blaisdell] 6p reprinted from All True Detective Cases, 1952

8) Waxie Gordon! [?/Mike Becker & Rocke Masterserio] 7p reprinted from All True Detective Cases,

1952

9) The Masqueraders [?/?] 6p reprinted from Police Trap#17, IW/Super Comics, 1964

11) Easy Money [?/Mike Becker & Vince Alascia] 6p reprinted from Prison Break #5, Avon, 1952

12) Habit Traps A Killer [?] 2p [text story] reprinted from All TrueDetective Cases, 1952
Notes: Final issue. G-Man host Matt Grover is renamed Nat Grover. The Overstreet Price Guide notes that Doug Wildey & Angelo Torres have art in this issue.


Science Fiction Odyssey
1. cover: Jeff Jones/frontis: Rich Buckler (unpublished—intended for Sept. 1971)

1) Introduction [Al Hewetson] 1p [text article]

2) From Fanaticism Or For Reward [Rich Buckler/Rich Buckler & Chic Stone] 10p from the story by

Harry Harrison [published in Scream #7 as The Mechanical Cannibals.]

3) All The Myriad Ways [Jeff Jones] 6p from the story by Larry Niven [published in Psycho #9 as All

The Ways And Means To Die.]

4) The Swordsman Of Sarn [Gardner Fox/Jack Katz & Vince Colletta] 12p [published in Psycho #12]

5) Author’s Space [bios of Terry Carr, Gardner Fox, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven & Don Thompson] 2p

[text article]

6) City Of Yesterday [Rich Buckler & Chuck McNaughton/Michael Kaluta] 8p from the story by Terry

Carr [published in Psycho #13 as The Horror Within And Without]

7) The Weapon Within Us [Jack Katz/Jack Katz & Jack Abel] 12p [published in Psycho #21 as The

Gloomb Bomb]

8) The New Science [Don Thompson/Berni Wrightson] 2p [text article, art was published as spot illos for

the text story ‘The Thing In The Alley’ and for the Frogs movie review.]

9) Starchild [Bruce Jones] 6p

Blazing Six-Guns

1. cover: Jack Katz & John Severin (Feb. 1971) [all color comics edited: Sol Brodsky]

1) The Sundance Kid: Death Rides The Thunder Wagon [Len Wein?/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 11p

2) Geronimo: The Challenge Of The One Hundred [?/Everett Kinstler & ?] 8p reprinted from Geronimo

#? (1950s)

3) Western Range Book [?] 1p [text article] reprint from the 1950s

4) Doc Holliday [?/?] 2p reprint from the 1950s

5) Doc Holliday, The Fast Draw Dentist [?/?] 2p reprint from the 1950s

6) Red Mask: The Weapons Of Red Mask [?/Frank Bolle] 7p reprinted from Red Mask #47 (Jan. 1955)

7) 20 Seconds—30 Deadly Shots [?/Mike Becker?] 9p reprint from the 1950s

2. cover: Dick Ayers & John Severin (Apr. 1971)

1) The Sundance Kid: Ride The Raging River [Len Wein/Dick Ayers & John Tartaglione] 10p

2) Kit Carson: The Doom Trail [?/Carmine Infantino & ?] 8p reprinted from Kit Carson #5 (Nov.-Dec.

1954)

4) Wild Bill Hickok And The Silver Mine Outlaws [?/? & Bill Everett] 6p reprinted from Wild Bill

Hickok #? (1950s) [Everett’s inks are new. He was not the original inker.]

5) Red Mask: Three Famous Badmen [Gardner Fox/Frank Bolle] 7p reprinted from Red Mask #48 (Mar.

1955)


Tender Love Stories
1. cover: Don Heck & ? (Feb. 1971)

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2. cover: Jack Katz? (Apr. 1971)

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3. cover: ? (June 1971)

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4. cover: ? (July 1971)

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