The cover price gets bumped up a dime and "Archaic" Al Hewetson takes over the assistant editor's seat from Israel Walman. In this issue and he doesn't waste any time flooding it with his stories, including a text article. Hewetson and Pablo Marcos continue the never-ending story of the original Muckman, The Heap. Artist Domingo Álvarez contributes two stories and shows how good he is at accurately depicting actor's faces; I also noticed a swipe of a photo of Victoria Vetri (aka Angela Dorian) from -- if memory serves me right -- a PLAYBOY pictorial in the story, "Kerene". It wouldn't be long until readers see the full effect of Al Hewetson at Skywald.
PSYCHO
Vol. 1 No. 7
July 1972
Skywald Publishing Company
Editor: Sol Brodsky
Associate editor: Al Hewetson
Cover artist: Vicente Segrelles
Pages: 68
Cover price: 60 cents
CONTENTS
"Edgar Allan Poe's Pit & Pendulum" (inside front cover)
Script: Al Hewetson
Art: Pablo Marcos
"Kerene"
Script: David Anthony Kraft
Art: Domingo Álvarez
"Horror Has 1 Thousand Faces"
Script: Al Hewetson (as Anderson)
Art: Domingo Álvarez
"The Family Jewels"
Script: Dennis Fujitaki
Art: Dennis Fujitaki
"A Spawn of Satan" (featuring The Heap)
Script: Al Hewetson
Art: Pablo Marcos
"The Terrible Tragedy of the Tormented One!"
Script: Al Hewetson
Art: Syd Shores; Pablo Marcos (both as Elder)
"I Am Demona: The Feastings of Prince Yamm"
Script: Gardner Fox
Art: Steve Englehart; Vince Colleta (partial)
"The Masters of Blood" (Psycho Photo-Special)
Text article by Al Hewetson
"The Asylum of Frozen Hell"
Script: Al Hewetson
Art: Pablo Marcos
"Forewarned Is... Forearmed!"
Script: Jim Pinkoski
Art: Jim Pinkoski
"The Discombobulated Hand"
Script: Al Hewetson
Art: Ramón Torrents
Back cover: Pablo Marcos
I have read very few of these mags. Your posts are most welcome.
ReplyDeleteWarren's are always my first choice, but Skywald are a close second. We lost Archaic Al too early.
ReplyDeleteI got the Skywald magazines (including this one, though I'm not 100% sure) when they first started appearing, but lost interest after Al Hewetson got heavily into that "Horror-Mood" thing, and the scripts all... just... seemed... a little too... OHDEARGODNONOOHGODGODNONONONO!!!!... stilted.
ReplyDeleteThe art at least was mostly good and featured some artists Warren hadn't managed to nab. I wasn't particularly fond of Pablo Marcos, however-- though I know he and Hewetson each had a big fan base.
Thanks for posting this, though!
-- hsc