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Cover of Nightmare (1970) #4

Nightmare (1970) #4

Skywald 1970–1975 series Cover date Jun 1971

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About this issue

Nightmare #4 (1970) is issue #4 of Skywald's Nightmare (1970–1975), with a cover date of June 1971. Written by Gardner Fox, Gary Friedrich, Al Hewetson and others and drawn by Jack Abel, Dick Ayers, Serg Moren and others.

Creators

Writers
Gardner Fox, Gary Friedrich, Al Hewetson, Mike Jennings, Chuck McNaughton
Pencillers
Jack Abel, Dick Ayers, Serg Moren, Tom Palmer, Ralph Reese, Tom Sutton
Inkers
Jack Abel, Mike Esposito, Serg Moren, Tom Palmer, Ralph Reese, Tom Sutton
Letterers
Jean Simek, Irv Watanabe
Cover artist
Harry Rosenbaum

The stories

“Phantom Of The Rock Era”

A gold digging groupie tries to latch onto a hip new musician named Roddy Skeane so she can scam him out of his wealth. Much to her horror, he's a part of a group of undead musicians dubbed the "Decrepit Chord", and they plan to kill her and resurrect her as the undead to join their band.

“Shoot-Out At Satan’s Coffin”

Newlyweds Holly and Keith visit the old west and come across a pair of evil prospectors who are forcing slaves to mine uranium. The radiation from the mine has mutated the slaves into grotesque humanoids as well as a gila monster into a huge dinosaur-like mutant. The prospectors name the monster "Rex" and use it to keep the slaves in check. The couple try to flee from the prospectors, but are cornered in the ghost town "Satan's Coffin". An Indian medallion given to the couple by a woman of the Molevis tribe conjures up the spirits of long dead outlaws who save the couple.

“The Mad Mind Doctor!”

A sadistic psychiatrist named Dr. Streichman treats people who think they are monsters by physically beating them. After he kills a young psychiatrist who objects to his methods, his previous patients literally become the monsters they thought they were and murder him.

“Hag of The Blood Basket!”

In 1793 during the French Revolution, an old hag is sentenced to death by guillotine. After she is beheaded, she finds herself intact in Hell. A demon known as Vogt who is working with his master Satan, tricks her into returning to the real world and have her life restored. The price? She is now a living headless body in an insane asylum.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.