Skull the Slayer (1975) UK Edition comic books
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Issue #5UK
$7.30
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins. Magic, Myth and Madness!, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Sonny Trinidad; Skull finds himself battling to save Camelot alongside the Black Knight, but when Morgan Le Fay's troops arrive, he is horrified to discover Corey, Jeff and Ann fighting on their side; his friends were never dead, only transmuted by Slitherogue, but they haven't forgiven or forgotten Scully running out on them and they're out for revenge; The fighting stops when Corey is wounded and the Black Knight destroys Morgan, but then the Knight reveals that he too is a robot like Morgan and all the others; As the Knight leaves and the robots prepare to rebuild to fight another day, Skull vows to get his reluctant, mistrustful 'team' out of the Tower of Time. 36 pgs., full color.
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Issue #6UK
$7.30
$6.60
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Cover by John Buscema and Mike Esposito. Swamp!, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Steve Ga; Having escaped the Time Tower, Scully and his friends including a wounded and delirious Corey have to negotiate the dangers of the swamp, and end up fighting a tribe of Incas; Meanwhile, the robotic Black Knight kills Slitherogue, not knowing that this action will destroy the Time Tower and himself with it since the Tower was tied to Slitherogue's life processes; Back in the present day, Scully's old nemesis Corporal Freddy Lancer, one of his escorts on the plane that went into the Bermuda Triangle, is rescued from the ocean by a ship carrying Jeff Turner's father, Senator Turner. Remember Those Old Funny animals...? article by Bill Mantlo. Eagle-Eye GI Joe Meets the Intruder Strongman from Another World toy ad. 36 pgs., full color.
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Issue #7UK
$7.30
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Cover by Ron Wilson and Klaus Janson. Bury My Heart In the City of Gold, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Sonny Trinidad; Jim Scully and his crew arrive at the Incan City of Gold led by the guide Villac Umu; Upon arrival Umu turns on them and they are captured by Viracocha the Supreme Inca; Meanwhile back in Florida, Jeff Turner's father, Senator Stoneface Turner is extorting Scully's ex-Nam nemesis Freddy Lancer to fly into the Bermuda Triangle and bring his son back; Lancer has secured a fleet of used jet fighters from an African war and a crew of mercenaries including a mean number called Newkirk; Lancer reveals that he is not only motivated by the money Senator Turner is paying him but also has a score to settle with Scully from their days in Viet-Nam; Back in the City of Gold, Scully and his friends are led to a towering ziggurat which looks suspiciously like a good place for human sacrifice; As the sun rises a shadow is cast from the ziggurat that triggers the opening of pits that swallow up Ray, Anne and Jeff into one pit and Scully into another; The imperiled three must face a pair of chained pteranodons with just enough reach to tear their heads off. 36 pgs., full color.
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Issue #8UK
$9.00
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Cover by Jack Kirby, Marie Severin, and Frank Giacoia. Riders On the Sky!, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Sonny Trinidad; Regarded as gods by the Incas, Skull and his friends hear the tale of the god Viracocha a.k.a. Captain Victor Cochran of the US Navy, who was marooned in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945 after being maimed in a plane crash; He has managed to pinpoint their location in Earth's history by charting the still joined continents, but before he can explain any further the Inca City is attacked by warriors from throughout time summoned by the traitorous Jaguar Priest, Villac Umu. 36 pgs., full color
