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Issue: Psycho #1
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #1 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagSkywald
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Skywald Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: No credits but authors listed include Gardner Fox, Roger Elwood, Art Stampler and Wayne Benedict. Artists listed include David Haldye, Paul Reinman, Gray Morrow and Mario Acquaviva.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding:  
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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The Skin And Bones Syndrome!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Aliens who are probing for a cure ravaging their home world, scan Earth with rays inadvertently causing Earthlings to dissolve into skeletons.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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The Glistening Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagCity of the Living Dead #[nn] published January 1952
was The Glistening Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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I Painted Only Terror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagEerie #5 published February 1952
was I Painted Only Terror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery No. 1: The Mirror

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Psycho’s Gruesome Gallery
Synopsis: A wizard in his castle brings forth a demon from a mirror.
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Pages: 1
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The Thing In The Mirror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagPhantom Witch Doctor #1 published January 1952
was The Thing in the Mirror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Steps in the Cellar!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagEerie #11 published April 1953
was The Steps in the Cellar [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story lengthened with new material or other reprinted material.
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...And Then There's Cicero!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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In Content Item: FlagJames Bond #1/1982 published December 1981
as ... och så är det Cicero! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Anatomical Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagEerie #11 published April 1953
was Anatomical Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Hands of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagEerie #9 published October 1952
was The Hands of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]with alterations
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art signed in the original.
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The Gruesome Faces Of Mr. Cliff!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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Pages: 8

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