Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	August 1973
Cover Price	$0.75
Pages	68
Editing	Al Hewetson
Notes	Publisher: Israel Waldman; Herschel Waldman. Most stories from #1-4 do not list a writer but Hewetson wrote all of them. Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.

Cover Details

Genre	horror
Pencils	Vicentes Segrelles
Inks	Vicentes Segrelles
Notes	Publisher: Israel Waldman; Herschel Waldman. Most stories from #1-4 do not list a writer but Hewetson wrote all of them. Additional and new Skywald data by Richard Arndt from his Complete Skywald checklist. Used with permission.

1 page text article "Prologue To A Scream"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Zesar Lopez
Inks	Zesar Lopez
Notes	Frontispiece. According to Hewetson’s introduction, Scream #1 was put together in response to readers’ opinions as expressed in the Bunch Of Questions survey and was Phase 3 of the Horror-Mood.

1 page text article "Welcome To Scream #1"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	photo
Letters	typeset
Notes	Text article with photos.

6 page story "I, Slime"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Jose Gual
Inks	Jose Gual

5 page story "Weird Count, Black Vampire Bats And Lunatic Horrors"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks	Felipe Dela Rosa

10 page Sloggoths story "The Sloggoths: This Archaic Breeding Ground..."

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Jose Gual
Inks	Jose Gual

10 page story "...Hickory Dickory Dock..."

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Ferran Sostres
Inks	Ferran Sostres

10 page Nosferatu story "Nosferatu: Where Lunatics Live"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Zesar Lopez
Inks	Zesar Lopez

2 page text article "The Skeleton In the Desert"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Maelo Cintron
Inks	Maelo Cintron
Letters	typeset

6 page story "The Tale Of The Perfect Crime"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Fernando Rubio
Inks	Fernando Rubio

6 page story "The Comics Macabre"

Characters	Fredric Wertham; Len Darvin; Al Hewetson; Herschel Waldman; Skywald staffers; Heap; Frankenstein's Monster
Synopsis	Featured lead characters based on ‘Seduction Of The Innocent’ author Fredric Wertham and Comics Code Authority president Len Darvin as well as Al Hewetson, Herschel Waldman & other Skywald staffers. In the story Darvin and Wertham visit the Skywald offices to complain about the horror comics being published, get into an argument and kill Hewetson whereupon tiny versions of Skywald’s Heap, Frankenstein’s Monster and others come off comic pages in the Skywald offices and kill Wertham and Darvin.
Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Maelo Cintron
Inks	Maelo Cintron
Notes	Hewetson sent a copy of the story to Wertham, with whom he corresponded for a number of years but, according to Hewetson, Wertham didn’t get the point.

5 page story "The Strange Painting Of Jay Crumb"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks	Felipe Dela Rosa
Notes	Spoof/takeoff on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb.

1 page story "Scream"

Genre	horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Zesar Lopez
Inks	Zesar Lopez
Notes	Back cover