Issue Details

Issue	#8
Published	December 1998
Cover Price	2.50 USD 3.65 CAD
Pages	36
Editing	Albert B. Feldstein
Notes	Parody of eye chart. Cover blurb "Notorious 1950s EC Comics!" not part of original cover.

Cover Details

Genre	parody
Script	Albert B. Feldstein ?
Letters	typeset
Notes	Parody of eye chart. Cover blurb "Notorious 1950s EC Comics!" not part of original cover.
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

7 page story "Irving Oops"

Characters	Irving Oops; Dinah; King Zug; Grand Budwizer; Ooolala; Doctor Lostpuss; Fuzzy; Poopik The Sailor Man
Genre	parody
Script	Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils	Bill Elder (signed)
Inks	Bill Elder (signed)
Notes	Parody of comic strip "Alley Oop".
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

1 page text article "It Shouldn't Have Happened Last Night"

Genre	parody
Letters	typeset
Notes	Parody of newspaper play review column by "Basil Metabolism. "
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

6 page story "Carmen"

Characters	Melvin Kross; Michaela; Carmen; Don Jose; Rose La Rose; Captain Zuniga; Escamillo
Genre	parody
Script	Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils	Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks	Joe Orlando (signed)
Notes	Parody of Bizet's opera "Carmen."
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

2 page The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts letters page "The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts #72"

Genre	fan art
Script	? (as The Crypt-Keeper); Bob Gorby; Wendy Gunther; Joe Grotenrath II; Barry McCollum
Pencils	Frank X. Mattison; Mr. Crow; Paul Dale Roberts; Grant Smith
Inks	Frank X. Mattison; Mr. Crow; Paul Dale Roberts; Grant Smith
Letters	typeset
Notes	Fan art and poems, introduced by The Crypt-Keeper.

6 page story "Panic Peeks Into Some Old Underpaints"

Genre	humor
Script	Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils	Jack Davis (signed)
Inks	Jack Davis (signed)
Notes	Gag captions for famous paintings.
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

7 page story "Gone With The Widow"

Characters	Scarlip O'Hare; Rhett Buttons; Mammy; Ashcan Milks; Mr. O'Hare; Shmoe Haminegg; Maladie Haminegg
Genre	parody
Script	Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils	Wallace Wood (signed)
Inks	Wallace Wood (signed)
Notes	Parody of movie "Gone With The Wind".
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

1 page Pan-Mail letters page "Pan-Mail"

Characters	Albert B. Feldstein; William M. Gaines
Script	Stephen A. Geppi?
Pencils	Marie Severin
Inks	Marie Severin
Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters from: Bobby Gorby; Joe Grotenrath II; The Knave; David Dellario; Rick Olson; Richard Jaeger.
Reprinted	from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955) [illustration only]

Half page credits "State of Ownership, Management, and Circulation"

Letters

typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscribe!"

Pencils	Jack Davis (signed)
Inks	Jack Davis (signed)
Letters	typeset
Notes	House ad for subscriptions to Gemstone Publishing's EC Comics reprints.
Reprinted	From ads for the EC Fan-Addicts club in various EC comics of 1954, but text is modified.