SKYWALD'S NIGHTMARE NO. 1 (PART 1)

NIGHTMARE
Vol. 1 No.1
December 1970
Skywald Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Sol Brodsky and Israel Waldman
Editor: Sol Brodsky
Associate Editor: Herschel Waldman
Cover: Mike Esposito? Brendan Lynch?
Pages: 64
Cover price: 50 cents

CONTENTS
"The Pollution Monsters"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Art: Don Heck; Mike Esposito

"Master Of The Dead!"
Script: ?
Art: Martin Nodell: Vince Alascia] (reprint from Eerie #14, Avon, 1954)

"Dance Macabre"
Script: ?
Art: Bill Everett (reprint)

"Orgy Of Blood"
Script: Ross Andru; Mike Esposito
Art: Andru and Esposito

"A Nightmare Pin-Up" by Bill Everett

"The Skeletons Of Doom! by Art Stampler/Bill Everett (text story)

"Help Us To Die!"
Script: ?
Art: ? (reprint)

"The Thing From The Sea!"
Script: ?
Art: Wally Wood; Mike Esposito (reprint from Eerie #2, Avon, 1951)

"The Creature Within!"
Script: ?
Art: ? (reprint)

"The Deadly Mark Of The Beast!"
Script: Len Wein
Art: Syd Shores; Tom Palmer

Using a part of each other's names, Sol Brodsky and Israel Waldman formed Skywald Publishing Corporation in 1970. Their first publication was NIGHTMARE, with a cover date of December of that year. It was intended as competition for Warren's CREEPY, EERIE and VAMPIRELLA, as well as Myron Fass' line of Eerie Publications. The earlier issues were more reminiscent of Fass' 'zines that Warren's in that they relied heavily on reprints from 1950's pre-code horror comics. These stories were re-touched and re-worked by Bill Everett and Mike Esposito, including taking a pen and ink wrecking ball to Wally Wood's "The Thing From the Sea!". Artists and writers credited on the title page are difficult in some instances to match up with the stories. Mike Esposito is credited by one source as the cover artist, but others won't identify it as his work.

A good first effort that shows promise -- and when a certain Al Hewetson shows up on the scene in issue #8 as Associate Editor, things really start taking off in a "horror-mood" sort of way...