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Post by dem bones on Sept 22, 2018 17:13:56 GMT
I can't be sure, but I don't remember any text stories in the Top Sellers version. Possibly the 'Nightmare Fiction Bonus' prove unpopular with the readers as, far as I've been able to establish to date (still looking), the short horrors vanished after issue 3 .... Art Sampler - The Skeletons of Doom: ( Nightmare #1, Dec. 1970). Mummies plan to populate entire planet with the living dead. Art Sampler - Time Stop. ( Nightmare #2, Feb. 1971). Plan 9 from Frelm IV involves exhumation of mummy condemned to immortality for defying his God. Narrated by the man whose misguided intervention doomed the entire universe! Anon - The Horror Man: ( Nightmare #3. April 1971: originally Eerie [Avon] #14, Jan - Feb 1954). Famous movie star Tracy Collins identities too closely with his lead role in Werewolf of Chicago. .... until the final number.  Gene Day: ( Nightmare #23, Feb. 1975). A plague-carrying mutineer goes to the guillotine with the small consolation that his jeering tormentors won't be laughing tomorrow. I may well have missed some, so you've any to add please do. |
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Post by ripper on Sept 23, 2018 11:22:08 GMT
I had a few of the US Skywalds and a few of the UK Top Sellers version. I am sure I read Time Stop back in the day. I wish I knew what became of the hundreds of comics I collected over the years. I thought they were in a box in our loft, but several expeditions in there have produced nothing. As it is chaotic in our loft to say the least, I live in hope my comics are still lurking in a shadowy corner waiting to spring out at me.  It has been many years since I have read my Skywalds. A couple of differences I seem to remember between the US and UK versions were: 1) The US version had more pages than the UK version and 2) The UK version had newer type stories, whereas the US version had what seemed to be many reprints from earlier comics. Am I correct in those differences, which I am basing on maybe half a dozen or so issues? |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 23, 2018 17:52:11 GMT
Haven't a clue about the UK editions, Rip - perhaps some of our more clued-in readers will? Richard J. Arndt provides a detailed bibliography of Skywald publications at EnjolrasWorld. |
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Post by ripper on Sept 25, 2018 8:16:19 GMT
Haven't a clue about the UK editions, Rip - perhaps some of our more clued-in readers will? Richard J. Arndt provides a detailed bibliography of Skywald publications at EnjolrasWorld. Thanks for the link, Dem. Looking at the contents of each issue, I think I had the earlier US issues, when reprints from the 50s were included prior to all new stories. From my memory, the Top Sellers versions didn't include reprints, and that is borne out by the stories I recall reading from the list. Also, I note that the US issues had typically 64 pages, whereas Top Sellers didn't include more than 4 or 5 stories, so probably 32-40 pages. |
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