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The Complete Web of Horror (America's NIGHTMARE Magazine) review



Nearly 300 pages of classic horror stories with twist endings!

What you'll actually find inside this Eisner-nominated collection:

Super rare BERNIE WRIGHTSON stuff:

Self-portrait from Squa Tront (1968) #2
Frankenstein cover for Rocket's Blast Comicollector (RBCC) #86
Back cover for Rocket's Blast Comicollector (RBCC) #72 w/ a cameo by Professor Simon Wright (The Living Brain from Captain Future) by Steve Hickman!
An unpublished splash page for "Mother Toad"
The revised letter page logo for Web of Horror #4
Preliminary sketch and final "Out on a Limb" cover for Web of Horror #4
Cover for I'll Be Damned (1970) #3
Frankenstein cover for Scream Door (1971) #1
Conan the Barbarian from Madstar Science Fiction Quarterly (1971) #1
Stake-Out, a 4-page homage to EC Comics from I'll Be Damned (1970) #2 
Frankenstein inside front cover for I'll Be Damned (1970) #3 
Inside front cover for Scream Door (1971) #1
"Curse of the Yeti" cover for Web of Horror #3
An alternate version of the "Curse of the Yeti" cover from The Berni Wrightson Treasury (1975)
The completed Web of Horror Comic Artist Contest centerfold
Welcome page for Web of Horror #1
An unpublished frontispiece for Web of Horror

33 Illustrated Strange & Weird Tales of Terror in black-and-white:

"Growth" by Nicola Cuti & Wayne Howard
"Blood Thirst!" by Terry Bisson & Syd Shores
"The Game That Plays You!" by Dick Kenson & BERNIE WRIGHTSON
"Dead Letter" by Dick Kenson & Norman Nodel
"The Skin-Eaters" by Terry Bisson & Ralph Reese
"Island of the Walking Dead" by Terry Bisson, Clark Dimond & Norman Nodel

"Mother Toad" by Terry Bisson & BERNIE WRIGHTSON
"Ashes to Ashes" by Ron Barlow & Roger Brand
"Sea of Graves" by Otto Binder & Michael Kaluta
"Breathless!" by Marv Wolfman & BERNIE WRIGHTSON
"The Unmasking" by Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico
"Man-Plant from the Tomb" by Otto Binder & Ralph Reese

"Dead End" by Otto Binder & Michael Kaluta
"Curse of the Yeti!" by Otto Binder & Ralph Reese
"Santa's Claws" by Frank Brunner
"Strangers" by Syd Shores
"Point of View" by Bruce Jones
"Feed It!" by Mike Friedrich & BERNIE WRIGHTSON w/ a cameo by Burroughs' Tarzan

"Out on a Limb" by BERNIE WRIGHTSON (from I'll Be Damned (1970) #3)
"Quasar" by Steve Hickman (from Reality (1970) #1)
"Sword of Dragonus" a sword and sorcery tale by Nicola Cuti & Frank Brunner (from Phase (1971) #1)
"Outside-In" by Bruce Jones (from Reality (1970) #2)
"Death is the Sailor" by LEN WEIN & Michael Kaluta (from Reality (1970) #1 & 2)
"Rat!" by Tom Sutton (from Scream Door (1971) #1, a sequel "Rat Reborn" appeared in Arrgh! (1974) #3)
"Hey buddy, can you lend me a..." by Michael Kaluta (from Scream Door (1971) #1)
"Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog" by Gerry Conway & Frank Brunner (from Vampirella (1969 Warren) #10)
"Exhibit Six" by Bill DuBay (from Cracked's For Monsters Only (1969) #9)

"The Monster Jar" by BERNIE WRIGHTSON
"I can't see my face because my name keeps getting in the way" by Michael Kaluta
"The Final Prophecy" by T. Casey Brennan & Ralph Reese
"Death and Waxes" by LEN WEIN & Wayne Howard
A 7 page story by Norman Nodel
"Guilt Complex" by Norman Nodel
"Tomb Zero" (only a double-page splash and the final page) by Clark Dimond & Ralph Reese

8 Fascinating Essays:

Introduction by Dana Marie Andra
Foreword by Terry Bisson
The Origin Story of Web of Horror by Clark Dimond
Spinning a Web of Horror by Dana Marie Andra
The Making of Scream Door by Robert Lewis
A Web of Reality by Robert Gerson
Afterword by Richard J. Arndt
Creators of Horror by S. C. Ringgenberg

3 Comic Artist Contest centerfolds (by BERNIE WRIGHTSON, Michael Kaluta & Ralph Reese)

A "Terror at the Edge of Time: THE SKIN-EATERS!" cover by Jeffrey Catherine Jones!


I give it an 11/10. A treasure trove of terror that will be appreciated by those who dig black-and-white horror and science fiction comics magazines like Creepy and Eerie. Swamp Thing/Bernard Albert Wrightson/Len Wein/Bruce Jones, Tales from the Crypt, Creepshow, Tower of Shadows and Savage Sword of Conan fans, you need this magnificent hardback book!


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