Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	Summer 1966
Cover Price	1.00 USD
Pages	40
Editing	Wallace Wood
Notes	Layout by Archie Goodwin

Cover Details

Pencils	Wallace Wood; Archie Goodwin (layout)
Inks	Wallace Wood?
Notes	Layout by Archie Goodwin

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Statement of NO Policy"

Synopsis	The editorial policy of Witzend to have no editorial policy but to allow artistic freedom.
Script	Wallace Wood
Pencils	Wallace Wood
Inks	Wallace Wood
Letters	typeset

8 page story "Savage World"

Genre	science fiction
Script	Wallace Wood
Pencils	Al Williamson; Angelo Torres; Wallace Wood; Roy Krenkel
Inks	Al Williamson; Angelo Torres; Wallace Wood; Roy Krenkel; Frank Frazetta
Letters	Arlene Williamson
Notes	Originally prepared for Lev Gleason's The Adventures of Buster Crabbe before the company went out of business. Rewritten by Wallace Wood for Witzend.
Reprinted	in Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction (Marvel, 1975 series) #1; in Kitchen Sink Classics (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1994 series) #3; in Death Rattle (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1985 series) #10

2 page text article "And In The Offing..."

Synopsis	Information on contributers and future contributers to Witzend.
Script	Wallace Wood
Pencils	Wallace Wood (charactures of Steve Ditko as a robot and Jack Kirby as the Thing)
Inks	Wallace Wood
Letters	typeset

1 page Edgar Rice Burroughs Portfolio illustration

Characters	Carson of Venus; John Carter of Mars?
Pencils	Reed Crandall
Inks	Reed Crandall

1 page text story "...And Thereby Hangs A Tale..."

Genre	funny animal
Script	Ralph Reese?
Pencils	Ralph Reese
Inks	Ralph Reese
Letters	typeset

4 page story "Sinner"

Script	Archie Goodwin
Pencils	Archie Goodwin; Dan Adkins?
Inks	Archie Goodwin; Dan Adkins?
Letters	Archie Goodwin
Reprinted	in Epic Illustrated (Marvel, 1980 series) #2

1 page text story

Genre	poetry
Pencils	Angelo Torres
Inks	Angelo Torres
Letters	Bill Yoshida
Notes	Includes the following poems: Progress; No Plan Apparent; Happy Holiday; Anyone Can Play; Quickly, Now; Morality; Innocence; Back Up and Push

2 page credits "Dedication, Credits, Acknowledgement etc"

Script	Wally Wood
Pencils	Wally Wood
Inks	Wally Wood
Letters	typeset

7 page story "Animan"

Characters	Animan
Genre	super hero; jungle
Script	Wallace Wood?
Pencils	Wallace Wood
Inks	Wallace Wood
Letters	Bill Yoshida

10 page story "Absurd Science Fiction Storeis"

Genre	humor
Pencils	Jack Gaughan
Inks	Jack Gaughan

1 page illustration "Stop the Presses"

Script	Wallace Wood
Pencils	Wallace Wood
Inks	Wallace Wood
Notes	inside back cover

1 page illustration

Pencils	Frank Frazetta
Inks	Frank Frazetta
Notes	back cover