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Skywald Publications was a 1970s publisher of black-and-white comics magazines, primarily the horror anthologies ''Nightmare'', ''Psycho'', and ''Scream''. It also published a small line of comic books and other magazines. Skywald's first publication was ''Nightmare'' #1 (Dec. 1970). The company lasted through the end of 1974 or early 1975, with ''Psycho'' #24 (March 1975) being its final publication. ''Nightmare'' published 23 issues and ''Scream'' put out 11 issues. ==Founding== The company name is a combination of those of its founders, former Marvel Comics production manager Sol Brodsky ("Sky") and low-budget entrepreneur Israel Waldman ("wald"), whose I. W. Publications (also known as Super Comics) in the late 1950s and early 1960s published comic book reprints for sale through grocery and discount stores.〔(Super Rabbit ) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. (Archived ) from the original on November 3, 2011.〕 Skywald was based in New York City. Brodsky, who also served as editor, brought in Al Hewetson – briefly an assistant to Marvel chief Stan Lee and a freelancer for the Warren Publishing horror magazines and others – as a freelance writer. "Archaic Al", as he later jokingly called himself in print, quickly became the associate editor, and when Brodsky returned to Marvel after a few months, Hewetson succeeded him as editor. Hewetson, aiming at a more literary bent than the work of industry leader Warren Publishing, developed what he called "the Horror-Mood" and sought to evoke the feel of such writers as Poe, H. P. Lovecraft and Kafka.〔 Interview excerpt from Hewetson, Al. ''The Complete Illustrated History of the Skywald Horror-Mood'' (Critical Vision : 2004),ISBN 978-1-9004-8637-8〕 Comics professionals who produced work for the Skywald magazines include writers T. Casey Brennan, Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart, Gardner Fox, Doug Moench, Dave Sim, Len Wein, and Marv Wolfman, and artists Rich Buckler, Gene Day〔"A Conversation with Gene Day" in Orion: The Canadian Magazine of Time and Space, #2, Fall, 1982〕 Vince Colletta, Bill Everett, Bruce Jones, Pablo Marcos, Syd Shores, Chic Stone, and Tom Sutton. Many who also contributed to rival Warren employed pseudonyms. Future industry star John Byrne published his first professional story, a two-pager written by editor Hewetson, in Skywald's ''Nightmare'' #20 (Aug. 1974). In an unusual arrangement, Hewetson managed editorial from his home in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, though the publisher was based in Manhattan. As he described in 1973, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skywald Publications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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