Skull Comics

    (Last Gasp, 1970-1972)
™ and ©1972 Gore, Spain, Todd, Sheridan, Jaxon, Deitch, and Dallas

(From the Slings & Arrows Comic Guide)

This was one of several underground comics conceived very much in the tradition of EC’s horror line, and after a slightly slippery start it grew into one of the best. Jack Jaxon, Dave Sheridan and Spain all contributed good material, but it was Richard Corben (#2, 3, 5, 6) and Greg Irons (#1–3, 6) who best captured the EC spirit in a series of astonishingly shocking strips. Irons’ frequent collaborator Tom Veitch was responsible, with Irons and Corben, for the run’s best (and most stomach-churning) tale, the full length A Gothic Tale in #6. The Veitch/Irons gore-a-thon The Clean-Up Crew from #3 was later turned into a notorious German underground film, albeit without their permission. ~DAR
Jump to issue:
  • 4
    #4
    Jan 1972
    Cover: $0.50
    W: Simon Deitch, Dave Sheridan, Jack Jackson, Charles Dallas, Michael C. Smith, Herb Arnold  ·  A: Simon Deitch, Dave Sheridan, Jack Jackson, Charles Dallas, Michael C. Smith, Herb Arnold
    Special H. P. Lovecraft issue: Adapts The Hound, Cool Air, and Pickman’s Model; B&W
    1 copy for $9.98
  • 5
    #5
    Jan 1972
    Cover: $0.50
    W: Richard Corben, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Dallas, Larry S. Todd  ·  A: Richard Corben, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Dallas, Larry S. Todd
    Includes adaptations of The Rats in the Walls, To a Dreamer, and The Shadow from the Abyss by H. P. Lovecraft; B&W
    2 copies from $26.00