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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.