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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published January 1974
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 68
Editing Al Hewetson

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Domingo Gomez
Inks Domingo Gomez

10 page story "The Old Vampire Lady"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jesus Duran
Inks Jesus Duran
Reprinted in Vampyres (Malibu, 1988 series) #4; in Vampyres (Malibu, 1991 series) #nn

2 page The Archaic Horror Mailbag letters page "Christoper Lee's Comic Opinion"

Script Al Hewetson; Christopher Lee
Letters typeset
Notes Features a guest "Comics Opinion" by Christopher Lee, which was actually an unused segment of the interview with Lee that appeared in Nightmare #17. In a classic comment, Lee ventures that comic characters, like the Human Gargoyles, wouldn’t work in the context of films.

8 page Monster, Monster story "Monster, Monster Rise From The Crypt"

Genre horror
Script Augustine Funnell
Pencils Ricardo Villamonte
Inks Ricardo Villamonte

10 page Darkos Manse story "They Lived In Darkos Manse!"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson [as Joe Dentyn]
Pencils Maro Nava
Inks Maro Nava

1 page story "The Thing With The Red Ribbon In Its Hair"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson [as Domingo Gomez]
Pencils Domingo Gomez
Inks Domingo Gomez

4 page text article "Dead - But Not Yet Buried: Edgar Allan Poe"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils photo
Letters typeset

6 page story "The Thing In The Box"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson [as Harvey Lazarus]
Pencils Fernando Rubio
Inks Fernando Rubio

11 page story "Hunger Of The Slaughter-Sludge Beasts!"

Genre horror
Script Doug Moench
Pencils Jesus Suso Rego
Inks Jesus Suso Rego

2 page story "A Tale In Old Egypt: The Premature Burial"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks Felipe Dela Rosa

1 page Movie Reviews text article "Nosferatu"

Genre horror
Script Ed Fedory
Pencils photo
Letters typeset

8 page story "Greed"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson [as Edward Farthing]
Pencils Ricardo Villamonte
Inks Ricardo Villamonte
Notes The monster in the story is identical to the monster depicted on the cover for #18.