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Issue: Nightmare #6
Publication Date: December 1971
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Issues: #6 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSkywald
Brand: A Skywald Publication
Indicia Publisher: Skywald Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: 1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Lovewitch and the Living Dead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Medea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Brief write up on Medea, the woman who married Jason from the Argonauts and who eventually killed their children when he rejected her for another woman.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Frontispiece. Contains a drawing of Medea standing near her two dead sons.
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Nightmare’s Nightmail

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Interview with Jeff Jones
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Love Witch and the Battle of the Living Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Love Witch
Synopsis: The druids of Stonehenge revive a dead hag to kill the Love Witch. At first the hag kills her by drowning her, but the Love Witch's spirit emerges from her corpse and destroys all the druids. It then revives her body. The Love Witch later calls forth lighting to destroy the undead hag. Meanwhile a surviving druid takes the power from a nearby comet and revives his dead brothers. He plans on harnessing their mental energy to become powerful enough to kill the Love Witch, but accidentally causes time to move forward centuries. The Love Witch destroys him and flies off on her dragon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Continued from Psycho #3. Several pages printed out of sequence.

Cover story.
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The Living Gargoyle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A grotesque looking little man has become misanthropic and wants revenge on all the normal people who constantly abuse him because he looks so different from them. He finds the statue of Shrazzgoth (a demon who destroyed Atlantis), and asks it to grant him wishes. The first is to be normal and handsome looking. The second is to turn everyone else into grotesque looking beings. The statue of Shrazzgoth obliges him. The now handsome man begins to mock all the ugly people around him but because he looks different from them, they swarm him and kill him.
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In Content Item: FlagJames Bond #1/1982 published December 1981
as Akbal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Broken Sparrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Two boys find a little alien creature who crash landed on Earth, and take it home to nurse it back to health. The little humanoid bird-like alien is so grateful that it plans on helping humanity with its vast knowledge. But when the boys' mother sees the creature, she flushes the "little monster" down the toilet.
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Pages: 6
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Boris Karloff Part II [2]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos from movies)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Great Men of the Horror Films
Character(s): Boris Karloff
Synopsis: A write up on the films of Boris Karloff.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Text article with photos.
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Corpse by Computer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Philip Talbot is a brilliant man who invents a huge computer known as "Debbie" that runs his vast estate. "Debbie" begins to gain sentience and starts killing any woman he brings to the house. Eventually Philip goes insane and destroys "Debbie" by causing her to short circuit, but the electricity fries him as well and the two are fused together into molten slag.
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In Content Item: FlagNightmare #21 published October 1974
as Corpse by Computer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Cosmos Strain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In the future, members of the Intergalactic Pure Life Force are looking for any type of dangerous virus that might cause a pandemic. This after "The Great Space Plague" destroyed a huge portion of humanity. They land on a planet where the population has been killed by a virus that causes people to have intense nightmares culminating with their heads exploding. After the leader is killed by the virus, his assistant decides to activate the "Sterili Bomb" to destroy herself and the planet.
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In Content Item: FlagNightmare #21 published October 1974
as The Cosmos Strain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story credited to Steve Stern. The Steve Stern name is believed to be a house name. It appears nowhere else, nor for any other company and it was used at Skywald only twice, with artists closely related through their fanzine work—Michael Kaluta & Jeff Jones.
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The Geek!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In Germany, Max Schuller finds a bulbous headed humanoid eating his chickens. He takes the "geek" in and clothes him and treats him as a son. He tells the creature about how much he misses his dead wife and how lonely he is. Eventually the Baron finds out about the creature and demands he take custody of it. The "geek" is constantly tormented by the Baron for amusement. That night the "geek" kills the Baron and flees. When the Baron's men come after him, the "geek" drops by Max's home and decides to repay him with kindness. By digging up his long dead wife to give Max companionship.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Edge #14 published January 1998
as The Geek! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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