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
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#4

January, 1972
Cover Price: $0.50
1 copy available for $9.98 		Simon Deitch, Dave Sheridan, Jack Jackson, Charles Dallas, Michael C. Smith, Herb ArnoldSimon Deitch, Dave Sheridan, Jack Jackson, Charles Dallas, Michael C. Smith, Herb Arnold
#5

January, 1972
Cover Price: $0.50
2 copies available from $13.60 		Richard Corben, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Dallas, Larry S. ToddRichard Corben, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Dallas, Larry S. Todd