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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 1973
Cover Price $0.75
Pages 68
Editing Al Hewetson
Notes Publisher: Israel Waldman; Herschel Waldman. Most stories from #1-4 do not list a writer but Hewetson wrote all of them. Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Vicentes Segrelles
Inks Vicentes Segrelles
Notes Publisher: Israel Waldman; Herschel Waldman. Most stories from #1-4 do not list a writer but Hewetson wrote all of them. Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.

1 page text article "Prologue To A Scream"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Zesar Lopez
Inks Zesar Lopez
Notes Frontispiece. According to Hewetson’s introduction, Scream #1 was put together in response to readers’ opinions as expressed in the Bunch Of Questions survey and was Phase 3 of the Horror-Mood.

1 page text article "Welcome To Scream #1"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils photo
Letters typeset
Notes Text article with photos.

6 page story "I, Slime"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jose Gual
Inks Jose Gual

5 page story "Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors"

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

10 page Sloggoths story "The Sloggoths: This Archaic Breeding Ground..."

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jose Gual
Inks Jose Gual

10 page story "...Hickory Dickory Dock..."

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Ferran Sostres
Inks Ferran Sostres

10 page Nosferatu story "Nosferatu: Where Lunatics Live"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Zesar Lopez
Inks Zesar Lopez

2 page text article "The Skeleton In the Desert"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Maelo Cintron
Inks Maelo Cintron
Letters typeset

6 page story "The Tale Of The Perfect Crime"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Fernando Rubio
Inks Fernando Rubio

6 page story "The Comics Macabre"

Characters Fredric Wertham; Len Darvin; Al Hewetson; Herschel Waldman; Skywald staffers; Heap; Frankenstein's Monster
Synopsis Featured lead characters based on ‘Seduction Of The Innocent’ author Fredric Wertham and Comics Code Authority president Len Darvin as well as Al Hewetson, Herschel Waldman & other Skywald staffers. In the story Darvin and Wertham visit the Skywald offices to complain about the horror comics being published, get into an argument and kill Hewetson whereupon tiny versions of Skywald’s Heap, Frankenstein’s Monster and others come off comic pages in the Skywald offices and kill Wertham and Darvin.
Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Maelo Cintron
Inks Maelo Cintron
Notes Hewetson sent a copy of the story to Wertham, with whom he corresponded for a number of years but, according to Hewetson, Wertham didn’t get the point.

5 page story "The Strange Painting Of Jay Crumb"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks Felipe Dela Rosa
Notes Spoof/takeoff on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb.

1 page story "Scream"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Zesar Lopez
Inks Zesar Lopez
Notes Back cover