Black and White Wednesday: "Bernice" by Poe and Villamonte

From the Master of Terror, Edgar Allan Poe, comes "Bernice" adapted and illustrated by Ricardo Villamonte for Skywald's Scream #7 (cover dated July 1974)...

Black and White Wednesay: "A Picture of Dorian Gray" by Wilde, Heweston and Cesar

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! One of Ol' Groove's all-time favorite horror stories is Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray. Teen Groove read it in high-school and was totally wowed by the concept and Wilde's writing. Archaic Al Hewetson and Cesar Lopez Vera did a fine job of adapting the classic tale in Scream #5 (February 1974). Hope you dig it, too!

Black and White Wednesday: "Are You Dead Yet?" by Hewetson and Villamonte

Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Here's an obviously Edgar Allen Poe-inspired creepy classic from Scream #5 (cover-dated April 1974). Archaic Al Hewetson and Ricardo Villamonte wanna know..."Are You Dead Yet?"

Black and White Wednesday: The Little Horror-Mood Shop of Horrors

Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Warren mags' Captain Company wasn't the only way to order cool horror-related junk out of a black and white horror mag! Archaic Al Hewetson and company had their very own Little Horror-Mood Shop of Horrors going on in their Skywald Horror-Mood mags, as well. Just in time for your Halloween ordering pleasure (provided you have a time machine), you can check out all the spooky and slimy stuff offered in Scream #11 (cover-dated February 1975)...

Can you imagine a mailman carrying that Styrofoam boulder to the doorstep? Sheesh!

Black and White Wednesday: Gene Day's Scream-ing Psycho Nightmares

What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna dig on some stunning and scary art by none other than the late, great Gene Day. Day was best known during the Groovy Age as an awesome Marvel Comics inker, making an indelible mark on Master of Kung Fu, as well as Marvel Two-In-One and elsewhere. Post Groovy Age, his penciling talents were allowed to shine, again on MoKF, as well as on Star Wars. But seeing art both penciled and inked by the amazing Mr. Day was usually seen in the b&w mags and the "ground-level" comics from companies like Star*Reach. Day's earliest U.S. work, however, appeared in the waning days of Skywald's wild n spooky Horror-Mood mags, Nightmare, Psycho, and Scream. Day did ads, spot illos, and pin-ups from late 1973-early 1975, and Ol' Groove's dug up most (if not all) of those pages for your perusal! Enjoy!

Black and White Wednesday: "The Thing in the Black Dress" by Hewetson and Suso

Chill, Groove-ophiles! Here's a short shocker sure to make you pull the covers over your head from Skywald's Scream #2 (cover-dated October 1973)! A frightening "fairy tale" featuring a fearsome femme to be sure..."The Thing in the Black Dress" by Archaic Al Hewetson and Jesus Suso Rego (just call him Suso)!

Black and White Wednesday: "The Macabre Beginning" by Hewetson and Villamonte

Are you in a Horror-Mood, Groove-ophiles? Then let's truck on back to the Summer of 1973 to the October cover-dated Scream #2 for a look at Skywald's answer to Vampirella, Lady Satan! Taking the name of a very different Golden Age character, writer Archaic Al Hewetson and artist Ricardo Villamonte tapped into the occult-mania that was running rampant, mixed it with the popularity of the "Blaxploitation" films, gave it a twisted sense of Women's Lib, and unleashed something so outrageous that it could only have found "life" in a Horror-Mood mag. A short-lived feature, Lady Satan only ran for three issues of Scream (#'s 2-4) and one issue of Psycho (#19). Now that you have the inside dope, are you ready to meet...Lady Satan?

Cover art by Jose Miralles