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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published April 1971
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sol Brodsky; Herschel Waldman (associate editor)
Notes Many of the Warren artists appearing here, mindful of Jim Warren’s edict that you couldn’t work for Warren & his competitors at the same time, used pseudonyms to hide their identities.

Cover Details - "When the Dawn Gods War!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Boris Vallejo (signed)(painting)
Inks Boris Vallejo (signed)(painting)
Colors Boris Vallejo (signed)(painting)
Letters typeset

10 page story "The Inner Man"

Genre Horror
Script Tom Sutton [as Sinclair Rich?]
Pencils Tom Sutton [as Sean Todd]
Inks Dan Adkins
Notes Sutton’s story credited to Sinclair Rich; Sean Todd for art (Richard Arndt)
Reprinted in 1974 Psycho Yearbook, The (Skywald, 1974 series) #1

6 page story "The Victims"

Genre Horror
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks Rich Buckler

8 page story "Vault of a Vampire"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Serg Moren
Inks Serg Moren
Notes Future editor Al Hewetson’s first story for Skywald.
Reprinted in Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #22 (November 1974)

8 page story "When the Dawn Gods War!"

Genre Horror
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Mike Esposito

9 page story "A Rottin' Deal"

Genre horror
Script Bruce Jones [as Philip Roland]
Pencils Bruce Jones [as Philip Roland]
Inks Bruce Jones [as Philip Roland]
Notes Title may have changed in the reprint.
Reprinted in 1974 Nightmare Yearbook, The (Skywald, 1974 series) #1; in Horror in the Dark (Fantagor Press, 1991 series) #3

2 page text story "Horror Man"

Genre Horror
Script Art Stampler
Letters typeset

1 page illustration "Nightmare Pin-Up #2"

Characters Uncle Creepy
Genre Horror
Pencils Chic Stone
Inks Chic Stone
Notes Actually this is pin-up #3, one of the corpses rising from the grave is Warren’s Uncle Creepy! (Richard Arndt)

8 page story "Soul of the Warlock"

Genre Horror
Script Chic Stone
Pencils Chic Stone
Inks Chic Stone

10 page story "Beware Small Evils!"

Genre Horror
Script Jack Katz [as Frank Voltaire]; Frank Giacoia [as Frank Voltaire]
Pencils Jack Katz
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Story credited to Frank Voltaire (Richard Arndt)
Reprinted in 1974 Psycho Yearbook, The (Skywald, 1974 series) #1

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Ad for Psycho #2 & The Crime Machine #1"

Genre Horror
Notes Inside back cover (Richard Arndt)