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Psycho #1

Skywald · Series began 1971 · January 1971

Dates

Cover date
January 1971
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Brendan Lynch, Jack Katz, Mario Acquaviva, Paul Reinman, Gray Morrow, Norman Nodel, Stephen Hickman, Everett Kinstler, Alvin Hollingsworthinks: Brendan Lynch, Mario Acquaviva, Jack Katz, Gray Morrow, Paul Reinman, Vince Alascia, Stephen Hickman, Everett Kinstler, Alvin Hollingsworthcolors: Brendan Lynchletters: Joe Rosen, Jean Simek, Irv Watanabeediting: Sol Cohenscript: Art Stampler, Gardner Fox

Stories

  • The Skin And Bones Syndrome! · 8 pages

    Aliens who are probing for a cure ravaging their home world, scan Earth with rays inadvertently causing Earthlings to dissolve into skeletons.

  • The Glistening Death · 6 pages

    A man hides out at his eccentric uncles house deep in the swamp, only to find he's been secretly feeding a beautiful woman red meat. It turns out the woman is a alien blob like monster that needs sustenance.

  • I Painted Only Terror! · 6 pages

    A painter becomes famous by painting the images of people facing death, and capturing their looks of terror on his canvas. He goes mad painting his latest painting of a deranged terror faced entity. It tuned out it was a self portrait of his madness.

  • The Thing In The Mirror · 6 pages

    A man commits murder but is plagued by a small green monkey-like creature he keeps seeing in a mirror. The creature eventually comes out of the mirror and absorbs the man turning him into the creature. He's later captured and used as a freak show attraction at a nearby circus.

  • The Steps in the Cellar! · 4 pages

    An escaped criminal looking to take shelter in an old abandoned home during a stormy night, goes into the house's cellar and encounters a cult trying to raise the demon Asmodeus from Hell.

  • ...And Then There's Cicero! · 6 pages

    A man visits his aunt who lives in an old mansion hoping to find any treasure she might have. He's disgusted by the large number of cats she keeps as pets. She names them all but talks about her one cat "Cicero" who's not around. When the man steals a key from her and opens a mysterious locked door in the upper floor he's attacked by Cicero, who turns out to be a giant tiger.

  • Anatomical Monster · 7 pages

    A curio shop owner draws a human figure who's half intact and half skinless to illustrate anatomy. Its the perfect drawing of the human anatomy so much so that an anatomy student who buys the drawing is praised by his college professor. The professor is so impressed by the accuracy of the drawing he uses it as a visual aid for his classes. However, the "man" in the drawing comes to life and begins committing murder.

  • The Hands of Death! · 7 pages

    A violinist whose hands have been injured in an accident, is so desperate for new hands he contacts a mysterious occult "doctor" who gives him the hands of a dead man. The hands had belonged to a serial strangler and the violinist finds himself strangling people against his will as the hands take over his body.

  • The Gruesome Faces Of Mr. Cliff! · 8 pages

    A bitter dying man who's career as a horror actor is at an end, puts on masks of the various monsters he played on stage and literally turns into them to kill. He's destroyed when, after becoming Dracula, he's dissolves in sunlight.

Reprinted in

Gwandanaland Comics (2016)

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