Skull Comics

Skull Comics: | #2 | #3 | #5 | #6 |

1970-1972. Last Gasp Eco-Funnies (#1: Ripp Off). $.50. 36 pages. Cover: glossy color. Guts: newsprint [oug]

Skull Comics #2

Sept. 1970. 6-7/8″x10″. [oug,vanD,ober]

“Lame Lem’s Love” [SYNOPSIS].
8 pgs: pgs 3-10. s/a/c?-Richard Corben. B&W. Reprinted in Cozmic Comics #1 (1972), Richard Corben’s Funny Book (1976), Horror in the Dark #1 (1991), and Richard Corben Complete Works #2 (1986).

Skull Comics #3

Nov. 1971. 6-7/8″x10″. [oug]

“Horrible Harvey’s House” [SYNOPSIS].
11 pgs: pgs 13-23. s/a-Richard Corben. B&W. Reprinted in Richard Corben’s Funny Book (1976), Gasm #4 (1978) and Richard Corben Complete Works #1 (1985).

Skull Comics #4

[May] 1972. 7-1/8″x10″. [oug]

Skull Comix #4 (1972), “Pickman’s Model”, pg 1. The face of Richard Corben by Herb Arnold.

Skull Comix #4 (1972), “Pickman’s Model”, pg 4. Richard Corben on a thombstone.

“Pickman’s Model” (8 pgs). s-H.P. Lovecraft. adapt/a-Heb Arnold. B&W.
This story was not a collaboration with Richard Corben. Though there was two connections with him (on the first and the fourth pages, see picts above).

Skull Comics #5

Aug. 1972. [oug,id]

“The Rats in the Walls” [SYNOPSIS].
10 pgs: pgs 3-12. s-H.P. Lovecraft (© 1945 Donald Wandrei), adapt/a-Richard Corben. B&W. Reprinted in B&W in Richard Corben Complete Works #3 (1987). Total color reprint in From the Pit #1 (1994) and Heavy Metal #179 (1999).

Skull Comics #6

Nov. 1972. 7″x9-7/8″. [oug,ober]

“A Gothic Tale”
Back Cover Art-Richard Corben.

“A Gothic Tale”, Part 2 [SYNOPSIS].
15 pgs: pgs 20-34. s-Tom Veitch, a-Richard Corben. B&W. Reprinted in Richard Corben Complete Works #3 (1987).
“A Gothic Tale”, Part 1 was drawn by Greg Irons.