Issue Guide
# | Date | Cover Artist | Story | Story Artist | Plot |
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1 | November 1982 | Richard Corben | Infected | Richard Corben | Sleazy credit collector seduces beautiful woman who warns him beforehand that she has "crabs" |
Out of His Depth | Alfredo Alcala | Stupid but rich man returns from the grave to kill the wife who murdered him | |||
A Walk in the Woods | Bret Blevins | Couple vacationing in Germany find themselves trapped in an increasingly horrific fairy tale | |||
All Hallows | Tim Conrad | A group of boys help a mouldering corpse seek vengeance every Hallowe'en | |||
2 | April 1983 | Bernie Wrightson | Over His Head | Mike Ploog | Loser's daydreams about love affair with beautiful woman result in her "murder" and his drowning death |
Night Watch | Ken Steacy | Warfare between members of a platoon and giant rat turns out to be a child playing with toy soldiers | |||
Infant Terrible | Val Mayerik | Young woman's aborted fetus dumped into polluted river mutates into monster that rapes her | |||
Speed Demons | Rand Holmes | Ghostly couple force taxi driver to drive recklessly fast | |||
3 | June 1983 | Richard Corben | Me an' ol' Rex | Richard Corben | Boy's imaginary friend dinosaur is really his cannibal father chained up in a wood shed |
Off Key | Doug Wildey | Young couple find their lives inadvertently controlled by a friend's constantly changing screenplay draft | |||
With Honor | Bill Wray | Japanese soldier convinces his friend to remain behind on an island for years following World War II so he can steal the man's wife | |||
Sunken Chest | Bret Blevins | An abusive fisherman left in the ocean to die by his wife's lover is consumed by a large shark | |||
4 | August 1983 | John Bolton | The Well | John Bolton | A young woman follows her husband into a well and is raped and impregnated by a hideous monster |
Nick of Time | Don Lomax | Lesbians concoct an elaborate plan to rid themselves of their husbands | |||
The Secret Place | Bruce Jones | Lonely boy develops a friendship with a creature hidden in a lake | |||
5 | October 1983 | Richard Corben | Terminated | Richard Corben | Villagers shotgun-murder a horribly diseased man, whose bloody remains fall into the town's water supply |
Scritch...Scritch...Scritch | Bill Wray | Man devises an ingenious plan to force his friend to commit suicide, so he can seduce the dead man's wife. | |||
Majority of One | Val Mayerik | In a world populated by werewolves, "normal" men and women are routinely hunted down and killed. | |||
Banjo Lessons | Rand Holmes | Man on trial for the gruesome murders of his three best friends reveals the circumstances leading to their deaths | |||
6 | January 1984 | John Bolton | You, Illusion | John Bolton | Old man can control other people's lives in his dreams |
Evening Walk | John Totleben | A man walking in the city at night turns into a dog, while the man's dog transforms into a woman | |||
Home Ties | Mike Hoffman | In a haunted house, a man sees a murder and suicide reenacted by ghosts | |||
Roomers | Attilio Micheluzzi | Decrepit old man sits in his apartment and waits to die | |||
7 | March 1984 | John Bolton | Holly's Hobby | John Bolton | Eccentric old woman murders visitors and keeps their decapitated heads to talk to |
Hooked! | Bill Wray | A gigolo encounters his latest target's murderous mutant son | |||
Sasquatch | Ian Aiken & Brian Garvey | Cannibalism, murderous vengeance and the Abominable Snowman | |||
Shut-In | Tanino Liberatore | Mute old man incapable of movement daydreams about murdering his sexy teenaged babysitter and her boyfriend | |||
8 | May 1984 | John Pound | Way down there in the Dark | Thom Enriquez | Abused young boy has a telepathic connection with a mutant-thing in the sewer |
First Impressions | Butch Guice | After desecrating his obnoxious professor's grave, a young college student steals the dead man's watch only to have the corpse bite his leg, leaving teeth permanently imbedded in the flesh | |||
An Unsettling Incident | Rick Geary | In 1735, a young man murders his wife and her sister with an axe | |||
The Party | Mike Hoffman | Man trapped for eternity in a hellish party | |||
9 | November 1984 | John Bolton | Warped Panels | Thom Enriquez | Writer and his artist friend find themselves trapped in a comic book story |
Deadlights | Bill Wray | Ghostly 1950s teenagers haunt a highway | |||
Spade, the Werewolf, and Me | Val Mayerik | After being bitten by a monstrous wolf, a boy's beloved pet dog becomes a werewolf | |||
Wet Season | Mike Hoffman | Numerous human shaped female-things from a watery world marry eligible men in a small town and transform the area into a rain-soaked place of horror | |||
10 | December 1984 | John Pound | Beer | Berni Wrightson | Newcomer in a snowy Canadian village stops off at a bar for a beer and is told an outlandish story about Sasquatch |
One for the Money… | Bill Wray | Thief robs a house during a costume party, and murders a guest in a bear suit who has found him in the act. Stealing the dead man's costume, he escapes into the woods and is killed by hunters | |||
Hatchet Job | Gray Morrow | Time traveler thinks he will act as a witness to the Lizzie Borden murders, ends up committing the crimes himself. | |||
…Two for the Show! | Bill Wray | At a costume party, man in a bear suit accidentally kills a burglar during a struggle. He pockets the stolen loot himself, then escapes into the woods and is killed by a grizzly bear. | |||
If She Dies | Attilio Miceluzzi | Father struggling with the imminent death of his daughter is visited by the ghost of a young girl. | |||
Poison in the Pantry | Rick Geary | Woman kills new husband and his family with "Rat-Pruf" poison. | |||
1 | August 1986 | Steve Huston | Terminated | Rich Corben | 3-D rendering of story reprinted from issue # 5 |
3-D Issue | Way down there in the Dark | Tom Enriguez | 3-D rendering of story reprinted from issue # 8 | ||
First Impressions | Butch Guice | 3-D rendering of story reprinted from issue # 8 | |||
Evening Walk | John Totleben | 3-D rendering of story reprinted from issue # 6 | |||
You, Illusion | John Bolton | 3-D rendering of story reprinted from issue # 6 | |||
NA | November 1987 | Dave Stevens | Termites from Mars | Rick Stasi | 1950s small town boys love science fiction movies and experience an unforgettable evening in a haunted house |
Fraternity | Scott Saavedra | Lonely fat man picks up women in bars by telling them sob stories about non-existent dead brother | |||
Night Dive | Henry Mayo | Ambitious young man joins exclusive yacht club and finds its his one way ticket to Davy Jones' Locker |
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