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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published October 1974
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Gray Morrow
Notes This issue has the first (and only!) letters page.

Cover Details

Genre occult; horror
Pencils Gray Morrow (signed)
Inks Gray Morrow (signed)
Notes This issue has the first (and only!) letters page.

6 page story "If I Were King"

Characters Myron Evans; Leonora (an old gypsy witch); King Cade (a TV talk show host)
Synopsis Myron Evans -- a mousy accountant-- dreams of being King Cade, a handsome TV talk show host. His neighbor Leonora makes Myron's wish a reality. But there are down sides to King's clamorous life, one's that Myron never imagined.
Script Marv Channing
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth

5 page story "The Devil's In Borley"

Synopsis A centuries plagued rectory becomes known as "the most haunted place in England."
Genre occult
Script Pat Boyette
Pencils Pat Boyette (signed)
Inks Pat Boyette (signed)

1 page text article "The Journey"

Genre occult
Script Marv Channing
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow

Half page letters page "The Inner Circle"

Letters typeset
Notes First half of the page is the end of the previous story, "The Journey."

5 page story "The Goal Is Death"

Characters Torak (a vampire); Johnny Lawrence (a hockey player); Toni (Johnny's wife)
Synopsis Wanting to experience humanity again, a vampire takes over the life of a hockey player. He is destroyed when a fellow player's crucifix get's caught in his hockey gear.
Genre occult
Script Marv Channing
Pencils Vicente Alcazar
Inks Vicente Alcazar

5 page story "Come and Meet the Piano Player"

Synopsis 4 strangers meet in a bar for some fun, but the bar's owner -- Mr. L -- makes them realize they have more in common than they thought.
Genre occult
Script Marvin Channing
Pencils Carlos Pino
Inks Carlos Pino