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Issue Details

Issue #v5#5 [Oct 1973]
Published October 1973
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (Art Editor); Irving Fass (Art Director)
Notes Painted cover. Small CWP symbol at bottom, probably for Country Wide Publications.

Cover Details - "The Monster In Cloth"

Genre Horror
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Notes Painted cover. Small CWP symbol at bottom, probably for Country Wide Publications.

1 page text article

Genre Horror
Colors None (B&W)
Letters Typeset
Notes Index page. Panels from "The Bloody Razor", "Lottery of Horror", and "The Walking Dead"

5 page story "The Bloody Razor"

Synopsis "Gleaming steel is honed to a sharp edge on a razor strap when the last customer enters into the world of screaming terror." Con artist swindles spinster out of fortune, only to meet her angry brother in a barber's chair.
Genre Horror
Pencils Mallory?
Inks Mallory?
Notes First page signed, but unreadable.

5 page story "Lottery of Horror"

Synopsis "Explorers in a cave find an exit from the dark hole in the mountain and not a land of peaceful enchantment and gut-crunching shock." Four explorers find an advanced underground civilization only to find that their food is humans who lose a lottery. Guess who loses.
Genre Horror
Pencils Arroyosa?
Inks Arroyosa?
Notes Signed but unreadable. Style is similar to Mexican/Spanish school.

5 page story "The Walking Dead"

Synopsis "Unbelievable horror with[sic] the living dead join the occupants of a car that broke down a hundred miles from nowhere." Four people wanted by the police strand their boat on an island and are killed by an undead she-creature, who turns out to be the wife of one of the escapees.
Genre Horror
Notes Ayers-ish art.

6 page story "The Hungry Vampire"

Synopsis "A gigalo [sic] is the victim of two women who desired to fatten him up for their own bloody appetites." A gigolo meets and weds and narrowly escapes from a Hungarian vampiress. He escapes and marries another woman only to find out she's a Romanian werewolf. What are the odds in that??
Genre Horror
Pencils Ste. Dancior?
Inks Ste. Dancior?

6 page story "The Mummy"

Synopsis "A horrible death awaits those members of an archaeological expedition that defiles the tomb of an Aztec chieftan." Unscrupulous guide kills off expedition only to perish in the Aztec pyramid.
Genre Horror
Notes Very Ayers-ish artwork, with many of his traits from other stories.

7 page story "The Jungle Ghost"

Synopsis "An incredible skin-tearing yarn of a hunter and the ghost of a most unusual lady-tiger."
Genre Horror
Pencils Larry Woromay?
Notes Familiar yet unsigned artwork.

7 page story "The Winged Monsters"

Synopsis "Journey into terror inside the unexplored Amazon region where horror is a natural way of life." Expedition meets bad end in the Amazon, including giant flies who tear arms and legs off of a trapped human.
Genre Horror
Pencils Arroyosa?
Inks Arroyosa?
Notes Artwork similar to earlier story. Dated "70" under signature.

6 page story "Killer Creatures"

Synopsis "Like a magnet the forbidden island drew the vacationers into a vortex of teeth-gnashing fear that turned the vicims [sic] into shells of their former selves." Amnesiac man makes a new life for himself, takes crew and fiance to island inhabited by monstrous bigfoot-like creatures. All die except him and his fiance. He kills her after realizing he's one of the monsters.
Genre Horror
Notes Very Ayers-ish artwork. Last page of story on back cover (last page probably presold as ad page).