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Issue: Nightmare #9
Publication Date: October 1972
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Issues: #9 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagSkywald
Brand: A Skywald Publication
Indicia Publisher: Skywald Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All info used by permission of Richard Arndt.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In19
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Skull-Forest of Old Earth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Skull-Forest of Old Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy #145 [unnamed variant] published February 1983
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mr. Pook
Character(s): Mr. Pook
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Lunatic Issue [Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Frontispiece and titlepage. Introduces a horror host, later named Mr. Pook, for Nightmare. The contents page features the first mention of the term "horror-mood" in this title.
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Markheim

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Markheim [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art credited to Duran, with a signature that looks like D. Duran, but the D could be a stylised J.
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The Nightmare World Of James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): James Edgar (credited)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Nightmare World
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Call Them Ghouls… Trolls… Call Them… Things… [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: From a dream by James Edgar. "Nightmare World" began a semi-regular series in which readers sent in their nightmare, which were then adapted into stories.
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The Guillotine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Guillotine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Zoo for the Beasts of the Universe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Zoo for the Beasts of the Universe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Cintron’s professional debut.
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Lunatic Letters’ Page [+ Editorial]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Skull Forest of Old Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Skull Forest of Old Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Shoggoths series begins, with Hewetson using H. P. Lovecraft’s Shoggoths as villains, although the stories themselves are new, not adaptations. Hewetson’s Shoggoths didn’t physically resemble Lovecraft’s descriptions either.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Abominable Dr. Phibes [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text article with photos.
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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The 300th Birth Day Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPsycho #23 published January 1975
as The 300th Birth Day Party! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The 300th Birth Day Party [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Gargoyle Trilogy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Gargoyle Trilogy: The Grotesque Gargoyle: The 1st Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as And Starts 2: The Idiot Gargoyle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as ..Now Starts the 3rd… the Darkness Gargoyle… [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: The three parts of the story are titled: The Grotesque Gargoyle: The 1st Tale; And Starts 2: The Idiot Gargoyle!; and ..Now Starts the 3rd... the Darkness Gargoyle...

Although the gargoyles are identical, this story has nothing to do with the Human Gargoyles series. Next issue with the Gargoyles is Nightmare #10. Part 1 of 9?
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The Night in the Wax Museum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Night in the Wax Museum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The artist’s name is variously spelled with one or two L’s.
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Dracula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as Dracula [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Werewolf Within

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Werewolf Within [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: There was no feature logo in this story, but this was the first appearance for the Darkkos Manse (called Darkkos Mansion in the last page of the story).
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horror-suspenseAd for Nightmare #10

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Next issue advertisement.
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The Thing in the Alley

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1976
as The Thing in the Alley [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagEerie #42 published October 1972
was The Thing in the Alley [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Due to a printer's error this story also appears in Warren's Eerie #42 in the same month. Art originally intended for Skywald's unpublished Science Fiction Odyssey #1.

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