Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	June-July 1970
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Dick Giordano

Cover Details

Characters	Mordred
Genre	horror
Pencils	Nick Cardy?; Neal Adams?
Inks	Dick Giordano?

5 page The Witching Hour foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Egor and a little girl in a photograph?"

Characters	Cynthia; Mordred; Mildred; Egor
Synopsis	framing sequence, interspersed before, between and after the stories
Genre	humor
Pencils	Alex Toth
Inks	Bill Draut [as Wild Bill]
Notes	Inks identification from Jim Bain via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.

6 page story "The Lonely Road Home!"

Characters	Cynthia (host)
Genre	horror
Pencils	Bob Brown (?)
Inks	Murphy Anderson (?)

1 page text story "The Dark Well"

Letters

typeset

1 page Day After Doomsday filler "The Day After Doomsday..."

Genre	war; science fiction; horror
Script	Len Wein
Pencils	Jack Sparling
Inks	Jack Sparling
Notes	Original indexer credited pencils to "Dan Spiegle (?)". According to the letters page of Weird War Tales #23, this story was originally commissioned by Dick Giordano when he was editing mystery comics for DC, although it was never used. It was then featured in Witching Hour #9 and later reprinted in Weird War Tales #22. Story and art credits are from the reprint in Weird War Tales #22.
Reprinted	in Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #22 (February 1974)

6 page story "The Last Straw"

Characters	Mildred (host)
Genre	horror
Pencils	Jose Delbo
Inks	Jose Delbo
Notes	Art credits from Jim Bain via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.

5 page story "Trumpet Perilous"

Characters	Mordred (host)
Genre	horror
Pencils	Jack Sparling
Inks	Jack Abel
Notes	Art credits from Jim Bain and Gene Reed. Pencils formerly credited to Win Mortimer; inks formerly tentatively credited to Jack Abel.