Issue | #v5#5 [Oct 1973] |
Published | October 1973 |
Cover Price | 0.60 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (Art Editor); Irving Fass (Art Director) |
Notes | Painted cover. Small CWP symbol at bottom, probably for Country Wide Publications. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | ? (painted) |
Inks | ? (painted) |
Colors | ? (painted) |
Notes | Painted cover. Small CWP symbol at bottom, probably for Country Wide Publications. |
Genre | Horror |
Colors | None (B&W) |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Index page. Panels from "The Bloody Razor", "Lottery of Horror", and "The Walking Dead" |
Synopsis | "Gleaming steel is honed to a sharp edge on a razor strap when the last customer enters into the world of screaming terror." Con artist swindles spinster out of fortune, only to meet her angry brother in a barber's chair. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Mallory? |
Inks | Mallory? |
Notes | First page signed, but unreadable. |
Synopsis | "Explorers in a cave find an exit from the dark hole in the mountain and not a land of peaceful enchantment and gut-crunching shock." Four explorers find an advanced underground civilization only to find that their food is humans who lose a lottery. Guess who loses. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Arroyosa? |
Inks | Arroyosa? |
Notes | Signed but unreadable. Style is similar to Mexican/Spanish school. |
Synopsis | "Unbelievable horror with[sic] the living dead join the occupants of a car that broke down a hundred miles from nowhere." Four people wanted by the police strand their boat on an island and are killed by an undead she-creature, who turns out to be the wife of one of the escapees. |
Genre | Horror |
Notes | Ayers-ish art. |
Synopsis | "A gigalo [sic] is the victim of two women who desired to fatten him up for their own bloody appetites." A gigolo meets and weds and narrowly escapes from a Hungarian vampiress. He escapes and marries another woman only to find out she's a Romanian werewolf. What are the odds in that?? |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Ste. Dancior? |
Inks | Ste. Dancior? |
Synopsis | "A horrible death awaits those members of an archaeological expedition that defiles the tomb of an Aztec chieftan." Unscrupulous guide kills off expedition only to perish in the Aztec pyramid. |
Genre | Horror |
Notes | Very Ayers-ish artwork, with many of his traits from other stories. |
Synopsis | "An incredible skin-tearing yarn of a hunter and the ghost of a most unusual lady-tiger." |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Larry Woromay? |
Notes | Familiar yet unsigned artwork. |
Synopsis | "Journey into terror inside the unexplored Amazon region where horror is a natural way of life." Expedition meets bad end in the Amazon, including giant flies who tear arms and legs off of a trapped human. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Arroyosa? |
Inks | Arroyosa? |
Notes | Artwork similar to earlier story. Dated "70" under signature. |
Synopsis | "Like a magnet the forbidden island drew the vacationers into a vortex of teeth-gnashing fear that turned the vicims [sic] into shells of their former selves." Amnesiac man makes a new life for himself, takes crew and fiance to island inhabited by monstrous bigfoot-like creatures. All die except him and his fiance. He kills her after realizing he's one of the monsters. |
Genre | Horror |
Notes | Very Ayers-ish artwork. Last page of story on back cover (last page probably presold as ad page). |