PSYCHO NO. 1 (PART 1)

A little over 50 years ago (that's half a century, folks!), the monster world was introduced to a new horror comic magazine, PSYCHO. Published by Sol Brodsky and Israel Walman, who combined their names to make Skywald Publishing Company, the magazine was at first a cross between Warren's CREEPY and EERIE and the line of Eerie and Stanley Publications (you know, the ones with the lurid covers). But as time went by it went on to evolve into its own "personality"; that would come later under the editorship of Al Hewetson. In the meantime, PSYCHO and it's companion publication, NIGHTMARE would slowly grow into what would become a cult group of 'zines, not as popular as Warren's, but nevertheless leaving its bloody claw marks on the legend of horror comics.

NOTE: This first issue contains mostly reprints from 1950's horror comics from Avon, but it would soon abandon these for all-new stories and art.

PSYCHO

Vol. 1 No. 1

January 1971

Skywald Publishing Company

Editor: Sol Brodsky

Associate editor: Israel Waldman

Cover artist: Brendan Lynch

Pages: 68

Cover price: 50 cents

CONTENTS

"The Skin and Bones Syndrome!"

Script: Roger Elwood?

Art: Gray Morrow

"The Glistening Death" (reprinted from Avon CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, 1952)

Script: Gardner Fox?

Art: Norman Nodel; Vince Alascia

"I Paint Only Terror!" (reprinted from Avon EERIE No. 5, Feb.-March 1952)

Script: Norman Nodel?

Art: Vince Alascia

"Psycho's Gruesome Gallery No. 1: The Mirror"

Art: Steven Hickman

"The Thing in the Mirror" (reprinted from Avon PHANTOM WITCH DOCTOR No. 1, 1952)

Script: ?

Art: Everett Raymond Kinstler

"The Steps in the Cellar!" (text story reprinted from Avon EERIE No. 11, April 1953)

Story: Art Stampler

Art: Alan Weiss?

"...And Then There's Cicero!"

Script: Gardner Fox

Art: Paul Reinman

"Anatomical Monster" (reprinted from Avon EERIE No. 11, April 1953)

Script: ?

Art: Alvin Hollingsworth

"The Hands of Death!" (reprinted from Avon EERIE No. 9, Oct.-Nov. 1952)

Script: ?

Art: Norman Nodel; Vince Alascia

"The Gruesome Faces of Mr. Cliff!"

Script: Len Wein?

Art: Mario Acquaviva ?