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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published June 1988
Frequency [none listed]
Cover Price 1.95 USD
Pages 36
Editing Chris Ulm (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes Possibly released to capitalize on the popularity of the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical version of the story? (the musical is mentioned in solicitation copy for this issue)

Cover Details

Characters Erik [the Phantom]
Genre horror
Colors Scott Bieser

19 page story "The Phantom of the Opera"

Characters Erik [the Phantom]; Christine Daae; Raoul [Vicomte de Chagny]: Madame Valerius; the Persian
Synopsis Soprano Christine Daae is stalked, then abducted by a grotesquely disfigured man who lives under the Paris Opera House. Her other admirer Raoul, with the help of a mysterious man known only as the Persian, eventually rescues her.
Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson (adaptation); Gaston Leroux (novel)
Pencils Jesus Duran
Inks Jesus Duran
Editing Al Hewetson (original story)
Notes Heavily abridged adaptation of the novel by Gaston Leroux.
Reprinted from Scream (Skywald, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)

5 page Gothic Fairy Tales story "The Thing in the Black Dress"

Synopsis A woman seeks to be the queen of society in her town, and to dispose of her younger rival she spreads the rumor that the younger woman is a vampire. But rumors and accusations can work both ways.
Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jesus Suso Rego
Inks Jesus Suso Rego
Editing Al Hewetson (original story)
Reprinted from Scream (Skywald, 1973 series) #2 (October 1973)