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Issue: The Heap #1

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Publication Date: September 1971

Issue #1

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Skywald

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Indicia Publisher: Skywald Publishing Corporation

On Sale Date: 1971

Volume: 1

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Sol Brodsky

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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3 Content Items

reprinted 3 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Tom Sutton

Inker(s): Jack Abel

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Heap

Character(s): Heap [Jim Roberts]; Sybl; Sinister Scythe

First Line: The Beasts of Bedlam battle for a sleeping beauty!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Shadows of Satan

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Kanigher

Penciller(s): Tom Sutton

Inker(s): Jack Abel

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Irving Watanabe

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Heap

Character(s): Heap [Jim Roberts]; Sybl; Doctor Frankenstein; Vince; Larry; Master Scythe

First Line: Stirred from sleep by the whispering wind...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

Notes: Includes recap of the Heap's origin from Psycho #2. This Heap is not the same as the Hillman character, although he derives a good deal from that strip.

When The Sea Goes Dry

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): I ?

Penciller(s): ? (Iger shop)

Inker(s): ? (Iger shop)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Heap Tale of the Unusual

First Line: Spanish gold lay on the bottom of the sea and legend had it that it was...

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From Content Item: Flag

Strange Journey #1 published September 1957
was When the Sea Goes Dry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: "I" is the writer of many Iger shop stories.

The Curse of the Broken Balcony!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Alvin C. Hollingsworth

Inker(s): Alvin C. Hollingsworth

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Heap Tale of the Unusual

First Line: But I don't see anything here!

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From Content Item: Flag

Strange Worlds #8 published August 1952
was The Thing on the Broken Balcony! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Retitled: "The Curse of the Broken Balcony!"

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Death on the Earth-Mars Run!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler

Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Heap Tale of the Unusual

First Line: What weird, unknown power dominated the richest banker of the solar system?

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From Content Item: Flag

Strange Worlds #8 published August 1952
was Death on the Earth-Mars Run! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Hand lettering has replaced some of the original Leroy lettering, most likely edits to receive Comics Code approval.

Ballast of Gold

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): I ? (from Iger Shop)

Penciller(s): Henry C. Kiefer

Inker(s): Henry C. Kiefer

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): A Heap Tale of the Unusual

First Line: This is the true story of a ship that carried hundreds of...

Synopsis: A ship coming from the California gold fields with 578 passengers and crew, along with 15 tons of gold, sinks in a hurricane during September of 1857.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: "I" is the writer of many Iger shop stories. The wreck of the S.S. Central America was discovered in 1988 and an estimated $100-150 million dollars of gold has been recovered so far.